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ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Other artworks by ROBERT VENAFRO
This 9x3-inch oil painting captures a quiet horizon where the sea and sky meet in stillness. I used a brush to create a smooth, glowing sky and a palette knife for the textured, layered sea below. I’m drawn to the contrast between atmosphere and surface, between calm and complexity. Working small allows me to focus on a single moment, a particular light or feeling, with full attention. These miniature works have become part of a personal reflection…
on selfhood, forming the foundation of my upcoming series Ipseity, which explores identity through memory, place, and mood. Framed under glass in a black floating frame, the painting is gently elevated from its backing—inviting close attention, like a fragment of the past preserved. The main photo, taken on the easel, echoes how I’ve traditionally presented my miniatures, both on my website and in earlier work, and highlights the concept behind each piece.
- Medium : Oil on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 3x9in
ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
Within and Without
My art has been described as moody but calm. Since my first collection, I See Through the Seasons (2016), I have given our forests human characteristics. I moved through winter and Arctic scenes, but the forests have stayed with me.
Then came the islands. Endogenous/Exogenous (2022) set me thinking about what forms us from within and what shapes us from without, and that led to Island Just for You. The sea has worn at an island’s shore for thousands of years, and the island has yet to take much notice.
A person is much the same. However close we are to others, each of us lives in a solitude no one else can fully enter, yet stays grounded in the same earth as everyone else. Our values change as we age, but the self endures. Past seventy, the question is less what I want and more what I leave behind.
Calm comes from accepting that solitude. I have spent years learning to be alone with myself, and I am still getting used to the company. venafrobob.com
My art has been described as moody but calm. Since my first collection, I See Through the Seasons (2016), I have given our forests human characteristics. I moved through winter and Arctic scenes, but the forests have stayed with me.
Then came the islands. Endogenous/Exogenous (2022) set me thinking about what forms us from within and what shapes us from without, and that led to Island Just for You. The sea has worn at an island’s shore for thousands of years, and the island has yet to take much notice.
A person is much the same. However close we are to others, each of us lives in a solitude no one else can fully enter, yet stays grounded in the same earth as everyone else. Our values change as we age, but the self endures. Past seventy, the question is less what I want and more what I leave behind.
Calm comes from accepting that solitude. I have spent years learning to be alone with myself, and I am still getting used to the company. venafrobob.com
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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