Alberta Landscapes in Hyper-Realism

New Zealand-born artist David Scott exhibits with Canadian Marilynn Jeffrey at St Albert’s Visual Arts Studio Association in a show called Between Earth and Sky: Portraits of Rural Alberta, which runs through 27 September.

Scott focuses on two distinct oeuvres in his practise, one being the kinds of abstract expressionist portraits or animal studies that exude so much vitality and energy that the viewer can’t help but imagine the images in motion.

For this show, however, everything reaches an eerie calm with his landscape scenes. They are so still that they should be called still lifes, except you won’t see any bowls of apples or pears. These are hyper-realistic and incredibly detailed studies of nature scenes.

“I vary my work a little bit. A little bit abstract, like still lifes with form. I guess it’s more expressionism as well,” Scott explains.

Scott is based in St Albert, Alberta.