What Are You Doing With That Green?, 2021
Maple Leith Art
Acrylics on fine art paper
Original Artwork, 10.16 x 15.24 cm
Unique Edition, 1 of 1
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
My favourite colour is green. Green is the colour of trees and grass. It is the colour of nature. Green is the colour of life.
Yellow is the colour of the life giving sun, and of life taking fire. I find the brilliance and natural feel of yellow to be as calming and beautiful as green is. Perhaps it’s the colours of a bird’s plumage, or the association yellow has with my hero the Great Vincent van Gogh. Whatever the reason or reasons that I have a preference for yellow and its variations, I found this work pleasant but uninteresting until I disturbed it with the blue and green stripes. They don’t belong, but they do make it lively.
Small abstract work on paper, framed and ready to hang.
Small paper work that can be hung in whatever orientation that you choose. Image will appear differently depending on which way that you hang it. Consider the image 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.
My signature appears on the front of the work and my Certificate of Authenticity is included.