Rod Charlesworth

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Rod Charlesworth

Join us for the opening reception Saturday October 5 from 1-4pm and Sunday October 6 from 11- 4 pm.

Engaged with and aware of the extensive history of Canadian landscape painting, Rod Charlesworth is committed to providing his viewers with a refreshing and often celebratory approach to the landscape. His work consciously comments on beauty and the ephemeral within the landscape, done so in a manner of mark making that is unique to his visual vocabulary. Rod received a diploma in fine arts from Okanagan College in the 1970s and has been exhibiting across Canada since then.

From Haida Gwaii to Peggy’s Cove and up to the Northwest Territories, Rod’s sensitivity for capturing the vast Canadian landscape is unparalleled. His work, whether bold landscapes or whimsical images of children at play, is now collected world-wide and he is more committed than ever to painting images that have a strong Canadian cultural influence.

“I will forever be intrigued by the diversity in the culture and landscape of Canada.  There is endless information for me to translate into my visual language that could be used to portray the Canadian landscape in all of its rugged subtleties.  The mountains at dusk, a lake with the sunlight gleaming on it, a fishing village with all of its quaint colours, all of these scenes afford ample inspiration.  It is these scenes coupled with the creative process and the physical qualities of paint on canvas that bring all of this to a fulfilling aesthetic resolve.  For myself, many a painting has taken me on a wild goose chase far from where I thought the destination would be.  Sometimes these pieces turn out to be the best expressions of all. ” - Rod Charlesworth