Rick Beaver

Cultural Background: Mississauga Ojibway of Rice Lake area in Ontario

Rick Beaver was born in 1948 on the Alderville Indian Reserve on Rice Lake, Southern Ontario. A degree in wildlife biology is a strong influence on his painting which he began full-time in 1981. His art evokes an emotional response which harks back to the origin of earthโ€™s people.

Allying nature and art, Rickโ€™s works show definite textured contrasts. Backgrounds are softly amorphous and lilting compared to the sculptural linearity of the creature he has chosen to depict. This melding of forms that are faithful to biology with abstract backdrops is at the heart of the paintings of Rick Beaver.

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Origine Culturelle: Mississauga Ojibway of Rice Lake area in Ontario

Rick Beaver est nรฉ en 1948 sur la rรฉserve indienne dโ€™Alderville, au bord du lac Rice, dans le sud de lโ€™Ontario. Son diplรดme en biologie sauvage a largement influencรฉ ses peintures, lorsquโ€™il sโ€™y est consacrรฉ ร  plein temps en 1981. Son art exprime une rรฉsponse รฉmotionnelle qui remonte ร  lโ€™origine de lโ€™homme sur la terre.

En alliant lโ€™art et la nature, les oeuvres de Rick nous montrent des contrastes dโ€™une structure bien dรฉterminรฉe. Les arriรจre-plans sont lรฉgรจrement flous et mรฉlodieux par rapport ร  la prรฉcision graphique de la crรฉature quโ€™il a choisi de reprรฉsenter. Cette fonte des formes, qui restent fidรจles ร  la biologie, agrรฉmentรฉe de toiles de fond abstraites, constituent lโ€™essence des peintures de Rick Beaver.

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