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ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
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Quiet Interval belongs to a body of work preoccupied with stillness, structure, and the essential, irreducible presence of a thing simply being itself.
A snow-laden branch rests at the edge of a frozen pond. The branch has not merely collected snow, it has been consumed by it, the wood visible only at the tips, the rest surrendered to generous, drooping lobes of accumulated white. Around it, glacial teal water holds its depth quietly. Beyond, a vast… warm expanse breathes outward to every edge.
Building its snow through layered passages and pure pigment impasto, the brushwork is deliberately present at the crests, not erased, not smoothed, but left as evidence of the hand and of time. The surrounding glacial field is worked in glazes, its edges always lost, its transitions always earned.
The painting asks the viewer to slow down and get lost. Not in drama, but in the interval, the held breath between one moment and the next.
A snow-laden branch rests at the edge of a frozen pond. The branch has not merely collected snow, it has been consumed by it, the wood visible only at the tips, the rest surrendered to generous, drooping lobes of accumulated white. Around it, glacial teal water holds its depth quietly. Beyond, a vast… warm expanse breathes outward to every edge.
Building its snow through layered passages and pure pigment impasto, the brushwork is deliberately present at the crests, not erased, not smoothed, but left as evidence of the hand and of time. The surrounding glacial field is worked in glazes, its edges always lost, its transitions always earned.
The painting asks the viewer to slow down and get lost. Not in drama, but in the interval, the held breath between one moment and the next.
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 55x67in
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
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- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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