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GALLERY THREE
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GALLERY OF PAINTINGS
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Our Canadian wilderness reflects an ever changing picture where nothing ever stays the same. There are the four seasons accompanied by weather conditions, natural disasters, and human influences on the land that shape and reshape the image. The wildlife within it responds to these changes with humility, resilience, and adaptability, but at times with extinction.
My goal is to capture the life and relationship within each distinct ecological system in art and help the audience to come and understand it to. Those experiences in the field become the source of inspiration which are recorded with both sketches and photography. Glowing and special moments that stick out become the focus in the studio of each new artwork.
GALLERY OF SCULPTURES
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When one visits a wilderness zone, one invariably feels its all encompassing power. Our senses begin to absorb all the surrounding structures, textures, and colours, even smells and sounds in this space. Choosing to re-capture an experience in a three dimensional sculpture offers an artist the opportunity to at least convey some aspects of those sensations gained in the field.
With sculptures, a story can be told from multiple vantage points. Their structures and textures will change as the lighting in the room changes. Sculptures challenge the artist to address compositional design from many vantage points. They also offer the viewer a sense of almost having been there.
Working with two and three dimensional spaces, these images are created using a number of mediums within the realism style and abstract structural designs.
GALLERY OF DRAWINGS
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There are great advantages to doing preliminary sketches, or fully developed compositional drawings. Sketches help capture moments quickly in the field like shorthand does in writing. Working out compositions as study drawings help visualize more accurately the final art. Each helps troubleshoot design challenges in the compositional development of a work of art allowing for the best one to surface.
There are also the refined and detailed drawings that go beyond mere study or investigation. When fully developed, they too can stand on their own.
Drawing mediums like lead pencil, charcoal and/or crayon can create a unique and completely different feel for a final piece of art, not unlike the seasons on a landscape.
THE ART OF
HARVEY BODACH
A CANADIAN LANDSCAPE AND WILDLIFE ARTIST
Individual characteristics of natural places visited and moments captured in the mind are indicative of experiences that inspire a story in art. When creating a work of art that tells the story, both the medium of choice and compositional visual tools come to the forefront.
An important changing landscape for me can be a panoramic vista of mountain peaks or a close-up of fallen leaves surrounding a decaying log or stump. Wildlife that lives and moves within each landscape have particular traits, movements and relationships, besides the obvious colours and shapes that make distinct. After observing the interaction of both, special moments occur at times which later become the inspiration of new paintings, sculptures and drawings.
“There is much in our world that makes us stop and ponder the mysteries of life. For me, it is the wonders of the natural world and the life that it contains that stir and hold me fixated - such as the excitement that comes with seeing a majestic bald eagle scanning the horizon from a cliff side perch. The observations I make prompt me to ask new questions as the wonders of creation open up for discovery.”
Over the last five decades I have gone out into the field to see this natural world for myself. Both North America and Europe have primarily been this field. It is in the last thirty years while working part time as a visual artist that a number of works of art have addressed those experiences as completed works of art. Now working full time as a professional artist can these paintings, sculptures, drawings and sketches be exhibited publically here for the first time. Hopefully in the years to come more original art will be added that address a growing number of experiences.
NOTE:
THESE THREE GALLERIES WILL CONTINUE TO EXPAND WITH ADDITIONAL PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES
AN ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY IS ALSO BEING CONSIDERED
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