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Chrissy Nickerson "42km"

 

“42km”

a new exhibition by chrissy nickerson


December 3rd to December 31st

Opening Reception Saturday December 3rd

The Artist will be in attendance from 2:00-7:00pm

“These paintings were created from a sketchbook which chronicled a 42km hike into the backcountry in the Canadian rockies.   The work is pure paint, to be discussed as such, but the stories of the locations and the sketchbook are embedded in history.  Painters have been lured into these passes by legends, with the drive to revive them through deeply personal paint language. Whose story am I here to tell?While I hike and draw and read about these places, I string together the inspirations beyond geology and composition; from Egypt to the Canadian fur trade, the First Nations people, gold, paint, consumerism….. The escape from it all to the space of a clean white page.  Freedom. By only working from sketch, I was free to shift my approach to include color interpretations of the stories of these peaks.....and quite unexpectedly, gold found it's way in! The sphinx, aurum,....it haunted me, and so, these paintings are reworked and revisited, again and again, much like the melting down of gold renews the story of its origin.”

 ~Chrissy Nickerson~

Scarab Lake From Above #2 20 x 24” Oil on Canvas 2022 $1760

Big Gold, Scarab Lake 40 x 60” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $4600

Egypt Lake Sphinx Face 48 x 60” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $4970

Assiniboine Study #1 18 x 40” Oil on Canvas 2022 $2320

Scarab Lake From Above #1 30 x 30” Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 2022 $2400

Mummy Lake #2 24 x 48” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $2880

The Monarch Peak and Monarch Ramparts 48 x 72” Oil on Canvas 2022 $5520

Assiniboine #3 From Wawa 36 x 72” Oil on Canvas 2022 $4970

SOLD Egypt Lake #3 30 x 72” Oil on Canvas 2022 $4690

The Monarch Ramparts From The Top Of Healy Pass 30 x 72” Oil on Canvas 2022 $4690

Egypt Lake #4 30 x 30” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas. 2022 $2400

The Sphinx From The Meadow 72 x 48” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $5520

SOLD Assiniboine Study #2 30 x 30” Oil on Wood Panel 2022 $2400

Scarab Lake, Beau Checks The Map 24 x 48” Oil with Gold Leaf on Panel 2022 $2880

Mummy Lake #1 From Our Lunch Spot 48 x 60” Oil on Canvas 2022 $4970

Haiduk Lake 36 x 72” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $4970

Mummy Lake #3 36 x 72” Oil with Gold Leaf on Canvas 2022 $4970