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ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 36x43in
About this artwork
This piece was inspired by a photograph we took during our Rocky Mountaineer journey through the Canadian Rockies. It was never simply about a landscape.
My work, now, explores what endures when pressure closes in. A narrow green shelf sits between monumental rock walls, beneath a sliver of blue sky. From that constrained space rises a single upright tree, calm, vertical, unwavering.
With my trusted knife, I created the mountains to give them… geological weight and texture. And with brushwork, the shelf developed through layered glazing to introduce atmosphere and depth. The contrast knife and brush mirrors the tension in the composition, mass against growth, compression against ascent.
The tree aligns directly beneath the opening of the sky, forming a quiet axis through the painting. This work reflects my ongoing exploration of landscape as a metaphor for identity, endurance, and inner alignment.
This is selfhood: the irreducible self that persists. Not ego, but essence.
My work, now, explores what endures when pressure closes in. A narrow green shelf sits between monumental rock walls, beneath a sliver of blue sky. From that constrained space rises a single upright tree, calm, vertical, unwavering.
With my trusted knife, I created the mountains to give them… geological weight and texture. And with brushwork, the shelf developed through layered glazing to introduce atmosphere and depth. The contrast knife and brush mirrors the tension in the composition, mass against growth, compression against ascent.
The tree aligns directly beneath the opening of the sky, forming a quiet axis through the painting. This work reflects my ongoing exploration of landscape as a metaphor for identity, endurance, and inner alignment.
This is selfhood: the irreducible self that persists. Not ego, but essence.
ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
I paint what I feel. After a life in finance, the palette knife became my primary way of speaking, plainly, without ornament. My subject is land, sea, and sky, held less as record than as memory of standing inside them.
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com
I work in oils, building surface until it holds weight, something to be touched as much as seen, according to those who collect my work. Whether the canvas is small enough to hold in one hand or large enough to walk into, the intention doesn't change: a place that is as much interior as it is geographical.
In my mid-70s, I look for Self in the work, a thing being entirely itself, answerable to no one. The work says what I couldn't otherwise say. What you find in it is yours.
www.venafrobob.com
ROBERT VENAFRO
Aligned With What Remains
$3,730
