"A True Artist of the North" More photos added.

"Camp Nanuk"

 Every once in a while we happen to meet someone so special that they constantly interact with what is good and nice in us.
As artists,  Diane Riley I have have started a page on Facebook for the artist to  exchange ideas. This site is without the political influences that are so common in the very large sites.
The artists involved in this site have no particular Genre of art but it is amazing at the diversity of the group.

"Mother with cubs"

One of our group....Kelsey Eliasson....is an artist with great talent.
He is very involved with Dog sled racing, Polar Bears and lives in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada during 

"Bear Season".

Otherwise he lives in the Yukon

on the highway that leads travelers/tourists into Whitehorse, in the Yukon, Canadas true North.
There he  managing his Art studio

 (The Outhouse Gallery)

Kelseys art for the most part, depicts the Wildlife and Peoples in the North of Canada with a unique style and great sensitivity.
Kelseys Art is vibrant and full of life.
He paints in colours so vivid they  are a strong contrast to what the average person thinks
The North is like.

 

"Gold Rush"

Kelsey also has a  has a blog.
A blog about Churchill, Manitoba,Canada and its' interaction with Polar Bears during "The Season"
When the bears come on land to mate, and give birth before they head back on to the ice flows.
The insight that Kelsey gives us about living in an area that is famous for Polar Bears is eye-opening and very down to Earth.

 He tells us about how the bears are air-lifted to "jail" tagged, and marked to be released when the Ice forms.....quite often by air to a destination far away.

Kelsey tells us about "Dancer" a well known (Bear) visitor to Churchill and his antics.....seems Dancer is a kind of Icon in the area.



"Portage"

I urge you to check out not only his art, but his blogs. 
In them he will give you a realistic point of view

of life in the far North today.  

The unique problems faced by those who live with the bears, 

and 

a tongue in cheek look at how the "Outsiders" opinions on the area usually differs from those of the residents.

Kelseys art:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150279699245565.506528.774885564&type=1
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To follow this blog and the wonderful writings of Kelsey Eliasson follow this link, you will not be disappointed.

http://www.polarbearalley.com/blog/index.php/2012/10/25/polar-bear-blog-snow-day-and-bear-day/
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The Bear season project.

Seasonal blog on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PolarBearProjectID: 85967-kathleen_sauerbrei-7cfc0cf460945bb161b27c580a229bdb
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A couple of photos from Kelseys Blog;

 The infamous "Dancer"

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Curiosity is Quite normal with these bears.
Everything and everyone is fair game to them.


A series of photos showing just who is in charge here.
I sure would not want to tangle with this bear.

~~Kathleen
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Old favorites, New ways of looking at them

A few years ago, I had a friend that went to Japan and explored.
While there on a sort of Pilgrimage he took some wonderful photos of what impressed him about the serenity of the countryside.
I have three favorite paintings I had done  from these photos.
One of a hot spring, the second a series of ponds feeding off a Hot spring and the other of a set of stairs carved all the way up a mountainside to a Shrine at the top.
While all three are wildly different in colour/subject  and style, they are such favorites of mine, that I have never parted with them.

"Falling Water"
18" X 24"
Acrylics on canvas.
(My very first attempt to paint water)

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"Steps of Miijima"
Acrylics on canvas

12"X24"
(My first attempt to paint depth without a horizon)

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"Ponds  of the Enlightened Spring"
Acrylics and Mixed media

24" X 24"
(My first attempt with using molding paste (stones & rocks) to create definition)

I hope you enjoy these paintings, as each was in some way a new ground achieved in my learning to paint process.
~~Kathleen

Creating art from different angles.

 A few years back I painted a Calla lily.
It was a special painting, as I had never painted a flower with such detail.
Fortunately for me, and a lot of revisions I finally got it right.
Any flower I have painted since, I have liked but never as much as the gorgeous white Lily.
It has been my Pride & Joy.
It is Painted in Acrylics

on canvas 

12" X 24"

SOLD

Recently I had a chance to see a bouquet of Calla Lilies and in looking at them I realized that the beauty and simplistic form of this flower formed a perfect spiral when I gazed at it from above.
At first I thought That nobody would know what I was painting.
But then as I gazed at my work in progress I realized that it was so obviously a flower.
A delicate exquisite flower.

Here is the Finished painting.
Acrylics on Birch Panel

20" X 20"
"Lily Rising"

Detail of the flower center;

I hope you like it.
This was a real challenge to me, 

but, in all I think it turned out quite well.

Comments and critiques are welcome.
Later all
~~Kathleen