Original Painting, Acrylic on Canvas - REFLECTIONS III

REFLECTIONS III, is a contemporary showcase of the use of colour and texture of this long-established Canadian artist. (See the masterful layering in the detail photograph.) As with any good abstract piece, it can be interpreted based on one's perspective. This large-sized piece will be a statement in any space, and one that will invite thought and conversation. If you have been looking for that "just-right" piece, you may find it in this one.

Acrylic on canvas, framed in float frame made by the artist. Finished size 40" x 32 1/2" 

Due to the size and nature of the piece, it is available at the gallery only, Cedar Lake Studios, 27 Ainslie St. N. Cambridge, On.

The Artist: David C. Armstrong started painting as a boy, growing up in Ottawa, Ontario. He studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and then at the Art Center Los Angeles. In L.A. he instructed at the Butler Fine Arts School. He has painted in three primary mediums. In Toronto, he painted abstracts and figures. Moving to the Georgian Bay area, he painted in the footsteps of the Group of Seven, establishing his reputation as an oil painter. In the early 90's, when he relocated to Brentwood Bay just outside Victoria, BC he painted the island villages, the rugged coast, and the West Coast sky, mostly in watercolour. Since returning to Ontario he has been using acrylics “and my work is larger and looser because of it”. David tailor-makes his own frames from white pine or basswood for each painting. The frames are wide, painted to show layers of colour in the old traditional way of gesso with a patina worked into the surface, and appropriate to his style of painting. ”As an easel artist, I paint vertically and directly. Most paintings are done 'a la prima'. I paint where I am; and farms, villages, and urban landscapes are frequent themes.” “I paint with a young boy’s enthusiasm, and an old man’s eye!”