Jim Visser "Presence"

ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE: Saturday, April 7th, noon to 4 pm

Join us for afternoon coffee, cake and conversation.

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Jim Visser, “Sky Reach,”

oil on canvas, 48″x 36″

Presence

"Ours is the presence of the temporary. My paintings are my desire to capture the presence of the moment. I am motivated by a desire to respond to nature's rhythm. I look for an offered tableau that begs interpretation. Our prairie spaces offer symphonies of shadow and light, movements of subtle quiet, changing to fortissimo drama. Roadways converging with fences or brush lines on guard. Clouds above or distant, sometimes wispy, often lazy, possibly gathering for an eventual storm. The slide of the sky distantly coming to earth as the land flows forward to meet you. Look again, imaging there is more over the horizon; another luminescent beginning. Our presence, a captured human experience portioned to us by our Creator from her cosmic infinity. How to catch the spaces of our fields and trees? How to express the feel of undulating land and reflecting waters? How to paint the moods of the ever changing sky? Who am I in the realm so palpable, so fierce?

I offer these paintings as my current response. They are sourced from my life of rural country living. They are an expression of my observations in our Alberta. This is my home. The images come to me from absorbing my familiar surroundings. Travelling near and far, I stop and sketch, photograph and sometimes stay for a watercolour study. "

Jim Visser