David Grieve

Bunch 3

30" x 40" Unframed Original - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed by David Grieve

20" x 30" Stretched Original - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed by David Grieve

Robert Genn, 1936-2014, Canadian Oil on canvas laid down on board 8 x 10 in signed lower right signed, titled and dated on verso framed For our US customers: 1) The artwork is shipp...

"No Escape from Nature" depicts an early morning walk through the woods. Dappled sunlight makes this scene quite tranquil. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...