Collection: Prairie Landscapes

My landscape series is inspired by my love of the prairie landscape, where as a boy I worked on my parent’s grain farm. These paintings are oil paintings on canvas and wood. The main difference between the two mediums is that I use the texture and grain of the wood to help create an interesting composition. This allows the grain of the wood to show through thin layers of transparent oil stain. I love trying to capture the beauty of a cloudy fall storm, the few weeks of bright summer days, the sea of yellow from canola fields in full bloom.