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Joy of Being-Iqaluit.3 Painting

David Tomlin

Canada

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in

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Inspiration “Love is the natural condition of our being, revealed when all else is relinquished, when one has already moved into transpersonal levels of identification and awareness. Love is simply an open state with no boundaries and, as such, is a most inclusive level of consciousness. Love is a quality of the Ground of Being itself. In this regard and at this juncture in the dying process, love can be seen as the final element of life-in-form and the gateway to the formless.” Kathleen Dowling Singh Iqaluit is the capital city of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It sits on vast Baffin Island in Frobisher Bay. The island is known for its ice-capped mountains and tundra valleys. Near the city, Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park is home to caribou and Arctic foxes. Qaummaarviit Territorial Park, on a tiny island near the city, contains archaeological remains of the ancient Thule people. ― Google I had the pleasure to visit Iqaluit in September 2022. The city is so far north that there are no trees. The local vegetation can be found on the ‘ground’: partially composed of rare berries, lichens, Arctic Willows, moss, tough grass, and small willow shrubs, all clinging to a variety of rocky and colourful landforms. This painting is one of three which reflects my love of the environment I discovered in Iqaluit and which expresses my artistic interest in fully abstracted landscapes. The connecting geometric lines in each painting express my belief in the connectedness of all things in life and create a stained glass window effect.

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Acrylic on Canvas

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

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30 W x 24 H x 1.5 D in

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David Tomlin is a self-taught Canadian artist who pursues his talent through painting and coursework at the Haliburton School of Art + Design (Ontario, Canada). David was born in Kingston, Ontario and was an Ontario elementary school principal in Toronto until his retirement. David has developed his unique style over the course of 20 years of painting and learning. He has participated in numerous art and gallery shows and many of his paintings are in private collections in Ontario, Alberta, Florida, New York and France. David develops his paintings from his many on-location digital photos and works from his studio in Toronto, Ontario. David was first inspired by the work of impressionist painters who capture a feeling or experience of life as a visual impression by exploring the changing effects of light and colour on a subject. This style is reflected in many of David’s earlier paintings and it continues to influence his painting techniques. As an artist interested in developing a uniquely Canadian body of work, David became drawn to landscape paintings which employ a different visual language to depict the wild and stark beauty of Canada’s landscapes. Featuring abstracted shapes in vibrant colour, his paintings evoke the tension between the opposing forces of order and chaos found in nature. Each surreal landscape is created to evoke emotion and dialogue, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own experience of such an encounter. David finds additional inspiration in the painting techniques of the First Nations artists, particularly those who explore humanity’s relationship to nature. Many of David’s latest works attempt to bridge these two artistic expressions to create his own unique interpretation of a landscape. The resulting strain between these varied expressions of created order evoke the effects of humankind’s tendency to impose his will and control over nature to create a transformed reality. The results can display goodness, truth, and beauty or profoundly distort and debase creation in the service of the opposite. What ultimately inspires David is his desire to visually express those moments which connect humanity with the divine, in all its variations. Each of his paintings expresses some aspect of David’s search for goodness, truth, and beauty in life. He approaches each painting as an opportunity to think, feel and create.

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