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GARRY
KAYE |
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"What I want to do is capture the respect I have for these
surroundings, in a series of paintings of the landscape." |
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The landscapes portrayed by Garry
Kaye are not born of an overly-calculated, self-conscious process, but
more due to a history long spent amongst a rural, if not backwoods
setting. Garry was born, third generation, to a large family on an
island that sits between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Vast
amounts of time spent on Salt Spring Island, as a child on a then less
populated island, many days farming and simply the years spent living
there - have shaped his development of a different sensibility regarding
landscape and beauty. His work twists the often overlooked mess of
impenetrable underbrush to focus on the intricate yet subtle beauty the
island has revealed to him. Garry's paintings are not of typical beauty.
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"In my daily comings and goings, I have unconsciously absorbed
details of sun and shadow, and the colours they provide in the natural
landscape." |
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Since graduating from the Vancouver
School of Art (now Emily Carr Institute) where he studied drawing,
painting, and (mainly) sculpture, Garry has visited and revisited the
island landscape as a source of his art making. Recently, Garry has come
to favour painting as his mode of art making. |
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Widely exhibited, Garry's work has
been commissioned both privately and publicly as well as finding its way
into collections nationally and internationally. Currently his paintings are represented by the Ian Tan Gallery in Vancouver, Canada and by the J. Mitchell Gallery on Salt Spring Island, Canada. High quality giclee prints are available from the artist upon request. |
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