—  David Sharpe  —

I’m influenced by the American, British and Russian Impressionist Painters, with a special affinity for the American Tonalists of the 20th Century. Seeing nature’s colours more subtlety than intensely, I say this about my work:
“There’s no big complicated ‘idea’ behind it. It’s just all about the light. Seeing it, feeling it and trying to capture it as I see it around me. Compositions with a simple strong design that capture a ‘sense of place’ also attract me. If my work strikes the same visual and emotional chord in a viewer that it did in me when I painted it, if it can make that viewer feel real emotion then I’ve succeeded as a painter.”

An Honours graduate in illustration from the Alberta College of Art and Design, I’ve taught drawing and design at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), Concordia University, and Capilano College in Vancouver. I’ve Lectured extensively at Queens University, St Lawrence College and Humber College where I sat on the College’s Advisory Board. I’ve also taught workshops in Canada and the US...My Work has won numerous awards at plein air events and exhibitions and is actively collected in Canada and the USA. My Work is Featured in current painting instruction books, and I teach zoom workshops via Winslow Artcenter in Seattle.I’m one of 2 Canadian members of the prestigious American Tonalist Society in New York. I’m active on Facebook and Instagram and invite you to visit me.

~David Sharpe~

www. sharpegallery.com