David Cairns
I've been painting most of my life. Honours degree in Fine Arts. Teaching degree. Art teacher at the jr high level for a couple of years. After that, building a successful career in the Canadian media industry occupied most of my time and energy.
I'm back at it now with a passion, re-discovering the high of creation. Which, when you think about it, is about bringing to life that which never existed. Original art is just that: Original. And every artist, whether in visual arts, or music, or literature, seeks to bring out something new. Never seen before...ever. Unique!
That's exciting for me and, I expect, for you.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am a painter, working in acrylics and focused on abstract, non representational art. Over the past year, I have focused on fluid, or pouring, painting.
With just a colour palette selected, unrestricted by an image plan, and without brushwork, I pour, tilt, spin and cajole, as I am primarily interested in the shapes, lines, intersections and effects that colours can assume as they find their way over the canvas.
We live in a world of so much historical invention and innovation, and yet we are still able to create unique and surprising, previously unknown images. How great is that!
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I've been painting most of my life. Honours degree in Fine Arts. Teaching degree. Art teacher at the jr high level for a couple of years. After that, building a successful career in the Canadian media industry occupied most of my time and energy.
I'm back at it now with a passion, re-discovering the high of creation. Which, when you think about it, is about bringing to life that which never existed. Original art is just that: Original. And every artist, whether in visual arts, or music, or literature, seeks to bring out something new. Never seen before...ever. Unique!
That's exciting for me and, I expect, for you.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am a painter, working in acrylics and focused on abstract, non representational art. Over the past year, I have focused on fluid, or pouring, painting.
With just a colour palette selected, unrestricted by an image plan, and without brushwork, I pour, tilt, spin and cajole, as I am primarily interested in the shapes, lines, intersections and effects that colours can assume as they find their way over the canvas.
We live in a world of so much historical invention and innovation, and yet we are still able to create unique and surprising, previously unknown images. How great is that!
..
$1,500.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
Although an abstract study of colour, "ESCARPMENT" is also a tribute to the Niagara Escarpment a great prehistoric upheaval overlooking Lake Ontario.
Varnished, with black edging on 1.5" gallery canvas
$1,500.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
There's a lightness to "EPHEMERAL" - hence the title - delivered both through the wispiness of the paint, and the pink/violet/white palette.
Varnished on 1.5" gallery canvas
$1,500.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
I titled this painting "Temiskaming" because the mineral, rock and water effects remind me of Northern Ontario.
Parts of an underpainting show through gouges in the top layer.
Varnished, with black edging on 1.5" gallery canvas
$900.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
24x36"
Although an abstract colour piece, the name MACH 1 references the speed of sound, which seems to fit this painting as it feels like you're zooming through the sky.
$1,200.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
36x48"
On a background of varying reds, DAYS GROW SHORT evokes that time of day when the light dims and dusk falls. Aggressive scratching through the grey allows some of the red - the evening light - to slip through.
Varnished with black edging on 1.5" gallery canvas
$1,500.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
30x40"
This references Space - A nebula is luminescent part of outer space, can consist cosmic dust.
Varnished with black edging on 1.5" gallery canvas.
$1,200.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
48x36"
"The Light Within Us" is all about humanity. The passion and energy coming from each of us that makes the Human Condition.
Varnished with black edging on 1.5" gallery canvas
$1,200.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
48x36"
Heavy, emotional gouges are scratched into Passion Storm, revealing the red underlay, like a passionate rainfall.
Varnished on a 1.5" deep gallery canvas, with red edging.
$1,200.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
48x36"
Solaire - named for its dominant use of yellow, on a reddish underlay, revealed in a series of scratches over the canvas.
Varnished, on 1.5" deep gallery canvas, with black edging
$900.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
30x24"
Northwest Passage is a heavily impastoed acrylic painting, rich in red, blue and white, evoking the far north of Canada.
Varnished, 0.7" depth with blackened sides
$900.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
30x24"
Ensoleillé - sunny or sunlit in French, is a bright, impasto driven celebration of colour.
Varnished, on a .7" depth canvas, edged in black
$1,500.00 CAD
Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
A delicate composition of green, violet, grey and white, hinting at the promise of Spring.
Varnished and edged in grey.