Introduction

For Edward Epp, painting a landscape is never a matter a processing visual data alone, but involves the total experience of the environment. As a result, the Saskatoon-born artist prefers to create the majority of his semi-abstract works en plein air, eschewing the use of visual memory aids like photographs. “So far, the most convincing painterly response, the most authentic for me, is in that natural moment,” he says.

For the last 10 years, Epp has made his home in the coastal city of Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia. This exhibition, his fifth with MSG, is the first to focus on his landscapes of this remote region. Comprising some 36 paintings and watercolours, Edward Epp: Mystic North presents the full range of Epp’s approach and compositional concerns in relation to his subject. All of the works were produced outdoors directly in front of the motif.

Many of the images in the exhibition make use of elongated formats, both vertical and horizontal. Epp compares their atmospheric effect to those discovered by early Chinese landscapists, who found that compression of dimension could convey a spiritual or meditative state of mind.

Exhibition Monograph

Gallery Information

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