Grounded in form and colour, Carolyn Dover’s laboriously crafted works challenge us to take pause and explore materiality, shape, and rhythm --- all speaking to our understanding of the language of the lands of this region. The works engage with the intangible nature of the changing landscape, eliciting visual tensions and encouraging visitors to move slowly through the exhibition, to take pause, reflect, and get lost in the landscape.”
Alexandra Hartstone, The Long View
Landscape painting is a projection of the artist’s inner world as much as it is a response to the outer. Every landscape I envision and create becomes in part, a cultural construct, imbued with my experiences and history as well as that of the land itself.
"I see the land as a metaphor of our individual and collective spirituality. By creating images that speak of beauty, I hope others will reconnect with the instinctive part of the human psyche that needs and longs to unite with the natural world. "
Our shared Canadian identity is linked to the land and how we see ourselves as part of it and shaped by it across this country.
The translation of what I see and feel in the natural environment to a new reality, the painted landscape, is the ultimate act of trust in my own creative truth. All those who create whether in song, word or image are bound by their own individuality. I have been painting and drawing from the time I was a young child. My artistic journey has been long and through it I have come to realize, with absolute certainty, you can only paint what you paint. The world you see is unique to you and no one else. Artistic integrity and creative sanity depend on the acceptance of this truth.
- Carolyn Dover
"I see the land as a metaphor of our individual and collective spirituality. By creating images that speak of beauty, I hope others will reconnect with the instinctive part of the human psyche that needs and longs to unite with the natural world. "
Our shared Canadian identity is linked to the land and how we see ourselves as part of it and shaped by it across this country.
The translation of what I see and feel in the natural environment to a new reality, the painted landscape, is the ultimate act of trust in my own creative truth. All those who create whether in song, word or image are bound by their own individuality. I have been painting and drawing from the time I was a young child. My artistic journey has been long and through it I have come to realize, with absolute certainty, you can only paint what you paint. The world you see is unique to you and no one else. Artistic integrity and creative sanity depend on the acceptance of this truth.
- Carolyn Dover
