{"title":"Michael Goudge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/michael-goudge\/michael-goudge-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael is a Vancouver, British Columbia–based artist whose work transforms salvaged heritage windows into luminous, organic works of art.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHe studied Fine Arts at the University of Victoria under the tutelage of world-renowned sculptor Roland Brenner. His practice brings together painting, light, architecture, and an enduring fascination with the forms and structures found in the natural world.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eWorking primarily in oil on glass, Michael creates abstract forms inspired by biology—suggesting cells, membranes, organisms, growth, and the intricate structures of living things. Painted onto glass reclaimed from heritage restorations, these forms are brought to life through warm, low-energy LED backlighting. The result is a meeting of the organic and the architectural: something ancient made luminous again.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eEach window is carefully sanded and treated to ensure adhesion and longevity, while preserving the character and history of the original glass. Rather than concealing its past, Michael allows each window to carry it forward.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eIn this way, every piece is given another opportunity to show us the world anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with oil on glass offers a unique relationship between paint, light, and time. The depth of the paint itself determines its colour and tone, while backlighting allows light to pass through the work, illuminating it from within. As the ambient light of a room changes throughout the day, so too does each piece—its character subtly shifting with its surroundings.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMy work explores forms inspired by biology: structures that suggest cells, organisms, growth, membranes, and the mysterious geometry of living things. These abstract forms exist somewhere between the microscopic and the cosmic, inviting the viewer to recognize something familiar without being able to quite name it.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eThere is also something inherently alive about painting on glass. Glass is technically an amorphous solid—a material that flows so slowly that its movement is imperceptible within a human lifetime. In that sense, each work is literally in motion, even as it appears still.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eThe finished paintings are not simply pictures on glass, but luminous objects—quiet focal points that change with the light and become almost shrine-like within a space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/fr\/collections\/michael-goudge.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}