Oils of Remembered British Columbia subjects
(Mainly ones done in 2009 from old sketchbook images ... because I live in Australia ...)
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Michael Kluckner
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  Left: Riverbank; Right: Thompson River. Both oil on canvas, 51 x 40.5 cm (20 x 16 inches) ... playing with the remembered colours and shapes of the dry Thompson River canyon near Spences Bridge, and the way the distant light drops to blue ... |
 Westcoast Confection, 46 x 92 cm. (18 x 36 inches), oil on canvas. This is a confection, as in something made up, because I had watercolour image in an old sketchbook of a rocky outcropping near Sechelt, but as I repainted it I added an arbutus tree, colourful rocks, picturesque bays, looming cedars, mist spilling down a distant hillside, and raking evening sunlight. Waving kayakers, romping otters, basking seals, a spirit bear and a distant clearcut were considered but rejected so far. |
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Cafe & Gas Station Oil on board 46 x 27.5 cm 18 x 11 inches This is a reworking of an earlier image of the Kettle River near Rock Creek, using my current, naturalistic palette. I realize that when I paint in oils it's the colours, not the forms, that have all the emotional pull for me – in other words, more experimental or arbitrary colour schemes just tend to leave me cold. With this palette, I see those shadows on that grass colour and I'm right back there on a warm summer day.... |
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Arbutus
Island 2009 Oil on board 37.5 x 27 cm 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches Donated to the Savary Island Land Trust auction, August '09 |
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Boundary
Ranch 2009 Oil on board 37.5 x 27 cm 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches |
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Gulf
Islands farm 2009 Oil on board 37.5 x 27 cm 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches |
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Chinatown Edge 2006 Oil on linen |
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Fog Hill Market 2006 Oil on canvas |
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Store on Fir Street 2006 Oil on canvas |
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Store on Fir Street 2 2006 Oil on canvas |
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