Mark Laver: Shining Examples

Be it urban parks after midnight, trailer park fires, nocturnal car crashes or rural highways, Mark's Laver exhibit reveals a battle between the psychological and narrative power of nocturnal imagery and the allure of oil paint itself.

Dark, wet, Vancouver Island nights receive a painterly treatment in Mark Laver’s intimate Night Paintings and ambitious Rural Disasters. Smeared, swirled, glazed and dripped, the luscious materiality of paint is as much the subject of these paintings as the landscape Laver calls home.