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Lindsey Love
“The snapshots people put in boxes and dismiss. I turn these images into paintings of unreal proportions, giving them an abstract quality and drawing attention to the ambiguity and subtleties that go unnoticed when they remain a photograph. Incorporating found domestic objects onto or into the canvas adds another plane to interact with the image and points out the physicality of the painting itself.”
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My work comes out of a desire to create invitations to contemplation and to counter hastiness. It is through contemplation that one becomes truly aware and open to life: to the beauty and transcendence's in the ordinary. I paint what I know so that the truth of my own experience will resonate with the viewer, and will invite them to enter the moment and just be.
Growing up on the prairies has given me a particular aesthetic, and I tend to be drawn to subject matter that has a minimal, spacious and peaceful quality. I collect images constantly - during purposeful walks or trips with my camera, or in unexpected opportune moments. I choose images that provoke a visceral response: a roadside transformed into the sublime by the setting sun, or a canola field brilliant under a cathedral sky. The subject matter and the feeling I am trying to convey determine the way I use the paint and the size of the work. Consistent in all of my work is an attention to color. I notice colors that may or may not exist in reality but contribute to a feeling of realness, luminosity and vibration in the painting.
My current work is a continuation in my pursuit of fluency. My life in Saskatchewan provides the material with which to practice. A successful painting requires an initial enchantment with the subject matter and an inner confidence and optimism while painting. As I continue to paint what is around me, both elements are constantly renewed.
Love graduated from ACAD in 2006 and has been a permanent fixture on Swirl's walls since the gallery opened. The sheer demand and developing interest in her work has kept the movement of her paintings consistent, her work often selling moments after it is hung, in some respects even before it has been painted. There is an air of serenity about her work that with the added depth and quiet sense of alienation it captivates the viewer.
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