Art Sunday; Brian Simmons
Yesterday, for the first time this year, I managed to do a few small jobs around the garden. My main achievement yesterday was to plant a young cherry tree.
I wasn’t too successful at veggi growing last year and with the winter being so severe I’ve left it a little late to start sowing seeds, instead I’ve decided to concentrate on fruit this year.
Which is why, with fruit firmly ‘planted’ in my mind, I chose these ‘fruit’ paintings for this weeks Art Sunday.
I love the vibrancy of the colour, the freedom of the paint and the way the fruit look juicy enough to eat.
Brian Simons is a Canadian self taught artist who takes his inspiration from the French Impressionists and the Writings of Baha'u'lla'h (Bahá’í Faith). His family moved to Vancouver Island from Alberta, where he began to paint.
He has been showing and selling his work in 1988 and in now represented by many galleries on the Island.
He has been painting full time from 2006 and in 2004 published a course book in acrylic painting.
Currently has work shown in the following galleries:
VAN DOP GALLERY, NEW WESTMINISTER, BC
SOUTHSHORE GALLERY, SOOKE, B.C.
