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PROVENANCE
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
Private Estate, Vancouver

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Ian M. Thom and Andrew Hunter, Gordon Smith: The Act of Painting, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1997, page 48

The mid-1980s brought about a shift in Gordon Smith’s approach to painting, resulting in a dramatic change in the aesthetic of his works. Smith’s palette moved away from the bright blues, soft mauves and pale pinks that surfaced in the Cumberland Basin series, and became earthier, reflecting the atmosphere of the moist West Coast rain forest. Starting in 1985, Smith made a series of visits to Shannon Falls. On contemplating the natural vertical form of the falls, Smith began to experiment with verticality in his canvases, marking a departure from the horizontality of his images of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Smith’s initial paintings of Shannon Falls were realistic representations of the area; however, as the series progressed, the images became further abstracted. In his description of the Shannon Falls series, Ian Thom states, “Here brushwork and colour are used with an abandon perhaps not seen since the work of the early fifties.” Shannon Falls E5 combines Smith’s affection for the landscape with his awareness and mastery of the physical qualities of paint.

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