Acrylic on canvas.
48x24"
Watch this being painted : https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjpFXIQDtC6/
This progressive painting was added to gradually from April to September, capturing the flora and fauna as the season changed, resulting in a painting of the meadow as if everything was blooming all at once.
Starting in April once the snow had thawed, I added in the bare trees and yellow grasses. A couple weeks later, grasses and dandelions emerged. By May the leaves on the trees and shrubs were in a rush to burst open. The crabapple and willow trees were blooming. By the end of the month the invasive purple bird vetch spread, followed by the purple crown vetch.
The yellow birdsfoot trefoil had its turn in mid July, followed shortly after by the stately Queen Ann’s lace. In August the shades shifted to yellows and whites as the native goldenrod and bush aster shot up tall above the grasses and remaining invasive flowers. And in September, the grasses and teasel offered up their seeds.
Heather Castles is a Canadian-Australian artist with over twenty years illustration experience in the publishing industry. Her fine-art paintings celebrate local Ontario farms and forests, flora and fauna. The wilderness of Algonquin Park is a continual inspiration to her art. During her time in the park Heather paints en plein air from the shore or canoe, and often finds inspiration in remote locations only accessible by portage.
Heather's playful painting style is a combination of relaxed, painterly brush strokes with tighter, realistic detail. Often painting alla prima, Heather films her painting progress in time-lapse and creates reels on Instagram to allow patrons of her art to enjoy watching the work come together as if watching “over her shoulder!”
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Through my artwork, my aim is to bring a bit of the outdoors in.
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