Flames & Sunbeams, 2020
Maple Leith Art
Acrylics on canvas
Original Painting, 50.8 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm
Maple Leith
About Maple Leith Art
I’m an artist, an athlete, an outdoorsman, an animal lover, a loyalist, a Canadian.
I’ve been called a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal by multiple woman. I’m a gentleman.
I have a degree in Fine Arts from The University of Western Ontario.
I’m from Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
I have lived in four of Canada’s 10 provinces. I currently live in Fernie, British Columbia.
Home is U.W.O.. Home is Toronto. Home is Shambhala. Home is Alberta. Home is British Columbia. Home is Canada.
I’m genuine.
I admire Diego Velazquez, Andy Warhol and the Great Vincent van Gogh. I respect Velazquez. I love and hate Andy. I have a kinship with Vincent. I look up to Rembrandt, Michael Snow, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Claude Monet, Mark Rothko, Lawren Harris, Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Laurie Anderson, the Group of 7, Ai Wei Wei and Banksy.
All of the animals and landscapes depicted in my work I have seen and photographed myself.
My personality is colourful. I love the colours of nature and how they enhance the quality of life. I make art in respect to what I have deep passion for. I create paintings and 3-D mixed media artworks of Canadian animals in addition to landscapes, as well as the abstract exploration of colour. I make art about Canada and the beauty of colour.
Leith, B.F.A.About the Product
What began as a play with the favourite colour of one of my heroes, the Great Vincent van Gogh, became a dance between yellow and it's closely related offspring, orange. As the two colours often play in fire, I have placed them at odds here, and yet in unison.
I label this as an Abstract Painting, but is can also be considered a Colour Field Painting. Colour Field Paintings are intended to be transcendental, to take the viewer to another spiritual state. If you stare long enough at this work, it begins to move, oscillate, and change.
This painting is signed on an angle in one corner, and wired as to allow hanging from two directions. Hang it in whatever orientation that you choose. The image will appear differently depending on which way that you hang it. Consider the work as I display it, then rotate 90 degrees and look at it again. Find the orientation that speaks to you. This is part of the joy of abstract painting.
Please note:1. This work is finished with five layers of varnish to protect it from UV light and dust.
2. The work does not come framed, but the edges are both painted white and varnished.
3. A wire is pre-installed and the work is ready to hang.
4. My signature appears on the front of the work and my Certificate of Authenticity is included.