A Mother's Patience
40" X 40" (102cm X 102cm)
Keith Dalgleish
For over a decade, Keith Dalgleish has had the good fortune to live on a small remote parcel of land in the Porcupine Hills of Southern Alberta. He was surrounded by nature and its intrinsic order, growing closer to the wind, wild grasses, flowers, and roaming animals. Captivated, nature became his muse.
Keith sees both the act of painting and his completed works as physical recordings that document his experiences with nature. He is especially drawn to those aspects of the wild that are intimate and remind us of our innocence.
Keith’s creative approach to art can be viewed as a marriage between classical painting and contemporary abstraction.
“I love the process of visual elements coming together that create identifiable form. As the same time, I’m fascinated seeing them dismantle and break down back into their origins. Within that range of becoming and collapsing, are the most remarkable discoveries.”
Biography
- Keith Dalgleish
Keith Dalgleish was born in 1962 to a Canadian Airforce family stationed in Germany. In 1966 they returned to Canada, where Keith’s artistic ability was quickly recognized.
He was raised and educated in Alberta and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting; Honours with Distinction from the Alberta University for the Arts in Calgary. He also earned a Performing Arts Diploma from MacEwan University and a Certificate in Commercial Sign Painting from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton.
Keith has had several adjudicated art exhibitions in Alberta and British Columbia. He received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and was awarded the Illingworth Kerr and the Grant McEwan scholarships. Keith has held several teaching positions, including at the Alberta University for the Arts.
His paintings are held in numerous private and public collections across North America and Europe.
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