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
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,
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,
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,
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