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ROBERT VENAFRO
Canada
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 55x67in
About this artwork
This oil on canvas marks a technical and philosophical threshold in my practice. Built through a layered atmospheric perspective, it employs glazes on bone-dry surfaces to establish depth through restraint rather than dramatic colour.
Painted from direct observation in my Montreal studio, the landscape emerged through subtraction. A limited palette allows space to breathe, while calligraphic branches cross the composition as single, decisive strokes… set against a horizon that refuses solidity.
In my seventh decade, my work has moved into a phase of Ipseity, where felt experience takes precedence over representation. I was drawn to the heavy silence of a daybreak—the weight of a fallen trunk held against mist and water that dissolve more than define. A faint yellow glow is anchored just above the shoreline, sensed rather than seen.
Emptiness functions as a compositional principle. The mist softens memory into presence, inviting stillness and sustained attention.
Painted from direct observation in my Montreal studio, the landscape emerged through subtraction. A limited palette allows space to breathe, while calligraphic branches cross the composition as single, decisive strokes… set against a horizon that refuses solidity.
In my seventh decade, my work has moved into a phase of Ipseity, where felt experience takes precedence over representation. I was drawn to the heavy silence of a daybreak—the weight of a fallen trunk held against mist and water that dissolve more than define. A faint yellow glow is anchored just above the shoreline, sensed rather than seen.
Emptiness functions as a compositional principle. The mist softens memory into presence, inviting stillness and sustained attention.
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
Quietude
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