newest painting

big 4X5 High falls near sudbury

site of Earth Day Gala

http://www.earthday.ca/gala/auction.php

title of piece 'Clouds over Butt Lake, Algonquin'

Acrylic on Birch panel 18"X36"

This is a recent example of Rod Prouse's new paintings.
It combines years of field study work, printmaking technique and studio experimentation along with Prouse's interest in Design, namely
Memphis, Deconstructavist and 60's Psychedelia aesthetics to create a contemporary take on the traditional landscape genre.

this painting is being presented at the 'Earth Day Gala' June9, Drake Hotel Toronto

this new painting is called 'Relic, Penn Lk Dam, Algonquin'

relic refers to logs left scattered throughout the Park, left over from logging days.

acrylic on panel 30"X60"

It will show at the Algonquin Art Centre this Spring and Summer

sorry not attending to blog... away for a while.

New work on the go also defining influences that have driven this work.

Sort of returned to interests from throughout career...print making, graphics and an interest in design..particularly the quirkyness of the Memphis movement of the 80's, the geometry and restructuring of Futurism and Vorticism and more recently Deconstructivism.

Also I think this new work is influenced by the Psycadelic vision of the 60's.

here is the finished work

sketches done on location at go home-georgian bay

same location as many 'group' paintings

4'X5' acrylic on canvas

warming up for 'Landscape in the Making'

A Professional Practice Project for Advanced Artists'

Fleming College/McMichael Gallery, September 2010 (details to come)

'Bush Is NS' acryl on canvas 4'X5'

a painting from recent trip reworked last week

night time rock lake....acrylic and mixed media , canvas 36:X48"

mixed media march2010

back to gouache, silkscreeen , block printing roots
squeeges, stenciles, blocks, rollers, graphite, acrylics........

landscape painting revival

There seems to be a strong revival of landscape painting as an innovative genre.

Landscape painting has never disappeared, in fact the last decade’s international super-artstar, Peter Doig, can be considered a figurative landscape painter and painters such as John Hartman have kept the flag flying healthfully at home.

The concept that ‘painting is dead’ and that landscape offered the painter little to seriously deal with, was prevalent not long ago.

It is hard to identify a thread or movement that defines the creative explosion of the past few years and that of the present. There is however, a sense of optimism and future that wasn’t so apparent ten years ago. This may be attributed to liberating factors that disregard older agendas.

Landscape..I include in landscape the daily landscape of our lives as well as the more familiar romantic subjects. Landscape seems to deal with the question of interpreting reality. Optical images are projected onto our retinas. The painter deals with visible events and somewhere between the optical projection and the inward and psychological processes, pops out art.

The place that this artistic image arrives at can be quite distant from the optical image. It

might be a place not so much about representation as revealing something meaningful about our inwardness.

rod prouse art

new work on the go