Night Dreams
Michael Cameron
Night Dreams
March 19th - April 3rd
Opening reception on March 19, 2022
2-6pm
the artist will attend
”The third year of a deadly pandemic …a war waged by a lunatic…climate catastrophe…the division of our country…children buried in unmarked graves…and my own personal struggle with heart disease. It’s been challenging, to say the least.
How I deal with these challenges is to keep painting in spite of the chaos. Through paint I…in part…bear witness to these, our most challenging times.
It is in dreams or daydreaming that images come to me…they comfort me in a time of profound anxiety. Perhaps, in some way, painting is the best response - to make something beautiful in a time of evil.
The images are stepping stones in my painting process. For me it is how I move the paint that draws me into the painting. Nature is born anew out of the rhythm and movement. When I’m working in such a manner, mistakes occur and from the mistakes come invention. Without invention, painting is really nothing more than illustration.”
The Seed Collectors, 60x60, Oil & Tar on Canvas, 2022, $6600
A Rainy Night in Georgia, 18x18, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $1400
Late Night Stroll, 36x36, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $3600
Warm Summer Nights, 18x18, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $1400
SOLD - The Devil's Gap, 30x30, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $2950
SOLD - Night Dreams, 48x48, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $4850
SOLD - Modern Traditional, 10x10”, Oil on Canvas, $600
Summer of Smoke and Fire, 48x60, Oil on Canvas, $5950
SOLD - Pacific West, 10x10”, Oil on Canvas, $600
SOLD - Fire Smart Banff, 18x18, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $1400
Jackson, 30x30”, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $2950
Sky Pilots, 48x60, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $5500
SOLD - Big Train Coming, 36x48, Oil on canvas, 2022, $4200
A good Year for the Flowers, 48x48, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $4850
Under a White Sky, 18x18, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $1400
Swimming with Trees, 48x78, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $6600
SOLD - Meet Me in a Dream, 36x48, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $4250
Motel, 30x30, Oil on Canvas, 2022, $2850
Night Dreams of Daytime, 36x40” Oil on canvas, $3650
Boler on the Bow, 8x8”, Oil on Canvas, $350
Pacific Snow, 10x10”, Oil on Canvas, $600
SOLD - 30 Nights, 8x8”, Oil on Canvas, $350
1993, 10x10”, Oil on Canvas, $600
Artist Biography
Michael Cameron studied at Carlton University, Ontario College of Art and Design and The Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been involved in numerous art exhibitions in Calgary, Banff and Toronto. He has been a Banff-based artist since a landscape artist residency at The Banff Centre. "I'm not sure why I prefer the image to the idea, that's just the way it is. When I moved out west I met other painters doing the same sort of thing I was doing.
I was exposed to a type of context in painting that I liked, so I stayed.” Painting "gives me the kind of space that I need for my ideas or images to evolve. It tends to slow things down enough to suit my personality. Painting makes me more aware of the place I live and hopefully the world that I live in.”
Michael Cameron
