THE BIRTH: Peak Experience, a 40 ft x 4 ft. temporary fence turned panoramic Literati landscape painting. Scale inspired by my time working with Gordon Halloran on the massive "Ice Gate 2010" for the Vancouver Olympic Games. Acrylic on Walmart cotton. June 2010, Garden @ 920 Latimer St., Nelson, B.C.
July 2010.
View from the grape arbor.
Summer colors.
November 2010. Mountains grow indoors.
December 2010. Christmas Fair Install, West Kootenay Women's Association Library, Nelson, B.C.
March 2011.
June 2011, semi-permanent install at the Frog Peak Cafe, Crescent Valley / West Kootenais, B.C.
March 2013, Self-directed Visual Artist's residency at the prestigious Banff Centre, Banff, AB. Returning to the work after two years of having no work space due to immigration battles.
50 hours of painting a week for two weeks.
March 17, 2013: Peak Experience Detail I (Vancouver), acrylic on cotton, 4 x 40 ft., Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
March 17, 2013: Peak Experience Detail II, acrylic on cotton, 4 x 40 ft., Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
March 17, 2013: Peak Experience Detail III (Kootenais), acrylic on cotton, 4 x 40 ft., Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
March 17, 2013: Peak Experience Detail IV, acrylic on cotton, 4 x 40 ft., Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
March 17, 2013: Peak Experience Detail V, acrylic on cotton, 4 x 40 ft., Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
Peak Experience, March 18, 2013, acylic on cotton, 4x40 ft., Margarate Greenham Theater, Banff, AB.
This work was displayed outside of a talk given by Oliver Stone entitled "Satire & Controversy." Late that evening the awkwardly large painting was taken down and returned to the studio where it awaited a dark fate...
The work was soon to become Fractured Landscapes.
