Milly Ristvedt

Western Sky Emma Lake (Diptych) - contemporary, abstract, acrylic on paper

1988

Dark clouds at a stormy horizon meet a violet sky in this emotive diptych by Jay Hodgins. Layers of curated colors coated in a glossy resin create depth and light in the atmospheric ...

This colourful abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt has a green backdrop. In the 1980s, Milly Ristvedt’s artistic journey continued to embrace colour and abstract form as he...

This minimal abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt is an ode to Japan. A master colourist, in the 1980’s Ristvedt focused on minimal shape and the “character and skeleton” of lyrical ...

Horizontal bars of blue, maroon, cherry red, pink, lemon yellow, burnt orange and green communicate on a soaked sand-coloured ground in the two panels that form this 9-foot square acrylic diptych painting on canvas. The rhythm of the spaces between the short lengths of colour creates a dialogue of movement that leads the eye upwards through the large picture plane. About the inspiration for the work, the artist wrote: "This is one of the rare paintings that I saw clearly in a dream and painted almost exactly as I saw it. It relates back to the four-panel work, Lock-Up (1972), done a couple of months earlier, where I used the physical break between panels as an edge to anchor some colour bars. In Phoenix, some bars are anchored while others float within the larger ground colour." This painting was included in the exhibition catalogue Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade (1979). Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, she was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted...

"You Are Always on my Mind (Diptych)" is a lively, colorful diptych on paper. It is painted gesturally and dynamically and is part of abstrac...

Flowing indigo ink and white dry brushing. Two unique matching contemporary paintings. Each piece 11x14. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of...

Nina is an artist, ceramist and colorist with 20 years of professional experience and a lifetime of art appreciation. Originally from Virginia and having traveled and lived extensive...

"Atmospheric ambiguity and a love of structure are long-time preoccupations and both are central to my work. Driven by a persistent curiosity to see where the work will lead me, I wo...