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124 PEARL VAN GEEST FOREST oil on canvas; signed and dated 2009 on the reverse 40 ins x 30 ins; 101.6 cms x 76.2 cms $1,500—2,000
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Provenance: Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto Note: Pearl Van Geest’s palette is refreshing and hopeful and her canvases are built-up with a variety of media including oil paint, cold wax and high gloss resin. The result is a highly textured surface characterized by dripped, scored and scraped paint. In addition to a BFA from OCAD, Van Geest holds a Bachelor of Science, which has helped to inform her artistic practice: “I am interested in the intersection of art and science, with questions that arise about the nature of reality and the natural world, our place in it and perception of it. In my paintings I explore the boundary or “skin” between the human and the natural world and ways in which our consciousness, and sensual and cultural perceptions can both facilitate and impede an experience of the natural world.”