Ken Christopher

The essential point of departure for Christopher, and key to the meaning of his paintings, lies in his personal experience of the landscape where he grew up - the prairie. Rather than just reproducing what he sees "out there", the artist translates his perception of the landscape into paint. In this way, the broad brush strokes express the horizontal expanse of the prairie, so that the picture, in his own words, "...is more created out of just letting the paint do it's own thing."

Algonquin Sweet - 2005
oil on canvas, 24 in x 32.5 in