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Shawn Jordan |
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The prairie landscape and sky has resonated with me throughout my life. My father, an artist,taught me from an early age to look deeply and to appreciate the prairie in all of its paradoxical glory and humbleness. The sky, fields, ditches, and sloughs continue to inspire me with their colour, light, movement as well as the enthralling sense of space and the feeling of all things vibrating with life. Born and raised in Regina, SK, I attended the Alberta College of Art and Design before moving and settling in Saskatoon. Presently residing in Winnipeg, I work as a graphic designer and also create personal work in watercolour, oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and digital mediums. I take frequent road trips throughout the prairies - from the Ontario shield to the foothills - connecting with the land, photographing and creating sketches.
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Using an emotion-based, reactive painting style to portray the immediacy, intoxication, chaos, ecstasy of life around us, I want to convey that which is is at once poetic and deadpan, dramatic and mundane, joyous and tragic, powerful and fragile, beautiful, ugly and beautiful again. I want to turn my compassion towards that which is more often ignored and dismissed with a glazed-over eye, be it a homely scrambled bush or a cloud unfurling in a windy sky. In some paintings, I look straight-on, unflinching. In others I introduce a road or path that seems to pull us, to rush us forward and past the lushness around us... But to where?
CONTACT Shawn Jordan Big Valley Road, 2007, acrylic on canvas
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