Ian Rawlinson: Hopeless Romantic

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Ian Rawlinson, "Levels of Awe," 2022

acrylic on panel, 16" x 16"

meet & greet closing reception: Saturday, June 11, 1-3PM

The second annual Saskatchewan Art Gallery Day is coming up on Saturday, June 11th. Galleries throughout Saskatchewan will take part in a province-wide art walk in celebration! At Art Placement, Ian Rawlinson's current solo exhibition, Hopeless Romantic, has been extended to June 11th. Ian will be in attendance from 1 - 3 PM for an informal closing reception. We hope you will stop in to meet the artist and view his recent works!

Ian Rawlinson is a Saskatoon painter known for his psychologically-charged nocturnal paintings. His work is deeply personal and often difficult to categorize; his paintings are landscapes, though his approach to the genre has always been unconventional. His scenes of the urban and rural environment are almost exclusively captured at dusk, that in-between time of day when waning light casts all forms into an ambiguous shadow zone. Rawlinson often uses photographic images as starting points, though they are quickly abandoned in favour of a responsive approach guided by feeling and intuition. The finished paintings are distilled through memory and emotion rather than direct observation. There is an enigmatic, supernatural quality to the works, in which ordinary locations are imbued with an ominous mood and eerie unease through dramatic plays of light and shadow. Forms become obscured, at times even abstracted, as the familiar is made strange.

Ian Rawlinson has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan for more than two decades. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Saskatchewan and has attended residencies in Canada and the United States, including the Emma Lake Artists' Workshop in 1992, 1994, and 2005. His works can be found in public and private collections throughout North America including the Department of Foreign Affairs, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Mendel Art Gallery, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, and the University of Saskatchewan.