I am a contemporary Canadian landscape artist. I'm a visual story teller engaged in a mad race against time. recording disappearing pre-urbanized landscapes, as cities swallow land in fertile temperate zones. I use Elemental Texture, Luminous Colour, Symbolic Shapes and Lyrical Line and a process I have developed and call Glazed Acrylic. also see me on instagram @robinbarattaartist

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Drumlin

 


copyright Robin Baratta, Drumlin, 16x20
Drumlin
Down the side road, by the corn maze, there is an odd little hill, a glacial remnant, and a reminder of why this land is so fertile. Glacial till deposited as the drumlin was formed by the melting ice, is some of the richest soil in Canada. Soil that feeds cities and industry that in turn devours the very soil that made them possible.
   
glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang
16x20, CDN $490.00 


Available in March
 


copyright Robin Baratta, Drumlin, detail

copyright Robin Baratta, Drumlin, detail
















 

Monday, July 27, 2020

Hamilton Rd Undulations


copyright Robin Baratta, Hamilton Rd Undulations
Hamilton Rd Undulations
I drive past this vista regularly, there’s a rutted farm track that goes through the fields. The land tells tales of retreating glacial flood waters, followed by forests then farms. These fields are zoned industrial use and one by one they’re disappearing under concrete and asphalt, how do we balance intelligent development with future need, in a hungry world?
  Glazed Acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,  
                                                             24x30.CDN  $1000.00 
                                                               Available in March

copyright, Robin Baratta, Hamilton Rd Undulations detail

copyright Robin Baratta, Hamilton Rd Undulations


 








Friday, June 12, 2020

Into The Distance


Into The Distance
Some times the fields seem to go on as far as the eye can see, an illusion of straight fence lines, and undulating land.
glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 
 12x16, $340.00 CDN
Available in March





Transitions


Transitions

I'm fascinated by the spaces between. Little bits of wild, left behind by the plough, too rough or inconvenient for the ploughman, but loved by the wildlings.

 Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 
  8x10 CDN $199.00
consigned to Tillsonburg Station Arts contact




Centre Line





Early in the year, the cover crop is ploughed under, the fertile land  ready for seed is almost purple in it's richness, giving future bounty.
Centre Line, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 
8x10,  CDN $199.00

consigned to Tillsonburg Station Arts contact



Green and Gold



Not far off the beaten track of the 401 super highway, a rural road winds past farmsteads and villages, a welcome respite from the city that nibbles at the lands around it. Veracious in it's appetite, will it snatch these lands into it's maw as so many already devoured?   
 Green and Gold, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden board, ready to hang,
24x30, CDN $999.00

Available in March
 

Corn As High As An Elephants Eye



On a hot summer day, as we wind our way down country roads a line from an old musical keeps running through our mind...

Corn As High As An Elephants Eye, 
Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,
12x16,
 CDN $340.00,






Pump House



A remnant of rural life, surrounded by developing subdivisions, safe only until it becomes worth the work of flattening the rolling landscape.  I record it while I can.

Hamilton Rd Pump House, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,
 12x16, CDN $340.00



Corn and Beans


Corn and Beans, behind the farm market, rolling hills cloaked in crops, undulate their way toward a sugar bush, both are productive and beautiful. 
Glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang
 12x16, $340 




Don's Dang Hill



Recorded on a hot summer day, Don's hill, was an anomaly, a steep drop into what may have once been the bed of a rushing glacial river, long gone, and now permanently erased to make way for a "better" road. 
Don's Dang Hill, Glazed Acrylic on cradled wooden panel ready to hang
12x12, CDN $285.00

Available in March