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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
Miroitement. The French carries something my mother tongue doesn't quite manage on its own - not just shimmer, but the specific flicker of light caught and thrown back by a moving surface, water most of all.
I worked the lower band in an interference and iridescence gold, a pigment that does not hold one colour under ordinary light. Move past it, and it shifts, warmer or cooler depending on where you stand and what the light is doing that hour.…
Sage through the top two-thirds, a break of warm orange where sky meets water, rose and plum beneath, darker where the paint pooled. Nine inches wide, three tall, small enough to hold in one hand.
The piece floats under museum glass in a slim black frame, lifted just off its backing so the edges and the texture of the paint stay in view - less a window sealed shut than a small opening onto something larger, especially here, where the light itself keeps moving across the surface.
I worked the lower band in an interference and iridescence gold, a pigment that does not hold one colour under ordinary light. Move past it, and it shifts, warmer or cooler depending on where you stand and what the light is doing that hour.…
Sage through the top two-thirds, a break of warm orange where sky meets water, rose and plum beneath, darker where the paint pooled. Nine inches wide, three tall, small enough to hold in one hand.
The piece floats under museum glass in a slim black frame, lifted just off its backing so the edges and the texture of the paint stay in view - less a window sealed shut than a small opening onto something larger, especially here, where the light itself keeps moving across the surface.
- 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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