Jim Visser | Feature Artist

×

Expand

Jim Visser, "Bow Lake," 2023

oil on canvas, 16 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the Gallery.

Alberta…The open land, as observed primarily in Alberta’s expansive prairie spaces, is my ingrained organic living experience.  So too are my many and varied visits in our mountains.  Alberta is my home, my life, and my love.  In painting the prairie spaces or high country, I am moved to ponder a possible interpretation of the moment.  As a painter I wish to express my love and emotions for the revelations on display. In response to the beauty and grandeur, I put brush to canvas with a pronounced realism from the heart. 

Jim Visser was born in Holland, moved to Canada as a young boy, and settled into farming in northeast Edmonton with his family.  He retired from years of full-time farming to a life of interpreting the Alberta lands, skies, and mountains with his paint brush.

His life as an artist was propelled by an extensive study period during the golden years of the University of Alberta Fine Arts Extension when he took drawing, watercolour, printmaking, and oil painting classes.  In 2002 he attended an artist-in-residency program at Emma Lake in Saskatchewan.