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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes
David More is one of western Canada's exceptional painters. Based
in the rural hamlet of Benalto, near Red Deer Alberta, he is part
of a generation of landscape artists who emerged in the 1970s to
make beauty out of the ordinary and challenge the expected with
bold acts of creation.Throughout his career, More has returned to
the garden as a deeply functional yet ritualistic space of human
endeavour. The garden is a place of shelter and sanctuary, of
colour and fragrance, of order and wilderness. The garden is a
private space, carefully tended and planted, observed en plein air
or through the living-room window. The garden is a public space, a
park where people gather to let their natures blossom. The garden
is the world, the nature that sustains and surround us, the
environment we all live within, and all have a responsibility to
cultivate and tend. Greatest Garden is a celebration of David
More's engagement with the garden as a multifaceted subject.
Featuring over fifty original artworks, this book encompasses a
career spent in conversation with gardens in their many and varied
forms. With lively brushwork, a keen sense of colour, and an
aptitude for expressive drawing and varied composition, More has
found the garden in expected and unexpected places. In Greatest
Garden you are welcomed to walk its sunlit paths.
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