Les Graff

Moving away from the idea of a single fixed vision regarding the subject of landscape, I found myself confronted with complex relationships of form through space, accepting the idea that time, movement and change are integral dimensions of the subject. Adding to this remembrances of past related experience and the subject becomes that much more layered and dimensional.

'Landscape' for me has been the familiar, serving as a 'backdrop' for my life. More than an interesting visual experience for art making, landscape has become an extension of self. Because of that, I have been preoccupied with developing a visual vocabulary that would enable me to speak about the subject, at the most personal level. What I do share with Canadian landscape artists is the idea of 'place'. We all have a need for a sense of place. I think of myself as an Alberta artist...

The Red Light of Evening Grasses - 2004
oil on canvas, 56 in x 66 in