Jean Claude Roy: Spotlight

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Jean Claude Roy, "Coachmans Cove," 2020

oil on canvas24" x 36"

With the restrictions announced earlier this week, just to let you know that Webster Galleries & Avenida Framing is still open. The 15% capacity rule will be followed but even on a relatively busy day in an art gallery, it's easy to maintain.

We will continue to safeguard both our customer and staffs health, buy continual wiping of surfaces after a customer has left and of course masks are mandatory in the gallery.

Please stay safe and healthy while knowing we're still open for business to help beautify your environment.

Jean Claude Roy

A customer brought one of his paintings in to be framed 2 years ago and I was hooked!

Jean Claude is represented by 15 Galleries in Eastern Canada, the United States and Europe and has found huge success and has a massive following.  His only Western Canadian representation was in Vancouver until recently, and now Webster Galleries is lucky enough to be his sole representation in the West. 

He describes his style as “expressionist-colourist”, working most frequently in oils with a palette knife. Since the late 1980’s a characteristic of his landscapes has been the presence of the sun; after staring at the sun, a black spot in front of his eyes was transformed into the sun on his canvas; he found that this added light to the landscape below, and it has now become an important part of the composition of each work. Painting almost every day, and usually on-site, his works reflect the season, the weather, the stories that passers-by tell him, his mood and the “feeling of the place”. Thus each painting is both a page in his diary and in that of the place he paints.