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Private Collection, Vancouver Island

During Arthur Lismer’s 1951 trip to British Columbia, he visited Victoria, then traveled to Galiano, Pender and Saltspring Islands, as well as Long Beach on Vancouver Island’s west coast. It would be the first of many summer sketching trips to the West Coast. In this truly exquisite natural still life, Lismer continued his fascination with the forest floor that had begun in Georgian Bay. His delicate colour palette is quite luscious, contrasting tonal variations of soft greens against cream and dark orange and pink. A strong use of incised line emphasizes and defines shape amid the profusion of blooming growth, thick moss and spiky grasses. Lismer’s use of paint is raw and bold, textural and painterly. There is a sense of urgency and confidence that comes through works such as this - as Lismer sensed that within this fragment of the forest floor was a microcosm of its life as a whole. A delightful and sensual work, Flowers of the Forest, BC expresses the irrepressible, jungle-like and voluptuous nature of rain forest growth.

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