Brent Charbonneau
Brent Charbonneau is a Sheridan College, Interpretive Illustration Graduate.
He has worked commercially for over fifteen years developing product packaging designs, illustrations and web designs from his home in Ottawa, Canada.
Brent is interested in the art and culture of indigenous peoples around the world. He was drawn to Rapa Nui (Easter Island in the South Pacific) to paint scenes of the remote island, it's people and the mysterious stone sculptures known to the local population as 'Moai'.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am interested in ancient and native cultures which I capture
in my paintings in oil (on canvas).
Each layer of oil is a reminder of the passage of time, an accumulation
of something lost and waiting to be rediscovered. Each stratum represents
the knowledge forgotten or a mystery unsolved from time immemorial.
My goal, to evoke a mood, to tell a simple story with brush strokes,
at times hidden or obscured and transport the viewer to the past.
I would like the viewer to share some of the mystery and to experience
some discovery of a native people and their secrets.
Brent Charbonneau is a Sheridan College, Interpretive Illustration Graduate.
He has worked commercially for over fifteen years developing product packaging designs, illustrations and web designs from his home in Ottawa, Canada.
Brent is interested in the art and culture of indigenous peoples around the world. He was drawn to Rapa Nui (Easter Island in the South Pacific) to paint scenes of the remote island, it's people and the mysterious stone sculptures known to the local population as 'Moai'.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am interested in ancient and native cultures which I capture
in my paintings in oil (on canvas).
Each layer of oil is a reminder of the passage of time, an accumulation
of something lost and waiting to be rediscovered. Each stratum represents
the knowledge forgotten or a mystery unsolved from time immemorial.
My goal, to evoke a mood, to tell a simple story with brush strokes,
at times hidden or obscured and transport the viewer to the past.
I would like the viewer to share some of the mystery and to experience
some discovery of a native people and their secrets.
$425.00
Oil on canvas.
18x14"
A soflty glowing Jack-o-lantern on Halloween night.
$545.00
Oil on canvas.
16x20"
This Moai wears the signature topknot or 'Pukao' which is carved from a light-red volcanic scoria.
$575.00
Oil on canvas.
16x20"
A large Moai overlooks the landscape with a stormy sea in the distance.
$550.00
Oil on canvas.
16x20"
This Moai sits on its ceremonial mound surrounded with lava rocks, on Rapa Nui/Easter Island
$320.00
Oil on canvas.
16x12"
A cold blustery day with freshly fallen snow blowing and obscuring the distance.
$750.00
Oil on canvas.
28x22"
Watching waves on Easter Island, time stands still. Time gone but not lost. Each wave folds time again and again.
$400.00
Oil on canvas.
18x14"
Birds gathering on the overhead wirea to plan an escape from the approaching storm?