Wayne Boucher Rca

My work deals with the luminosity of light and the radiance of colour in counterpoint with elemental schemata that transcends surface and meaning. The intent of my work has been for the viewer to “fall in and drown in the work” and see things beyond the surface of the paintings.

My painting process uses the layering of see-through images and imaginings of x-ray vision similar to the drawn schemata of Canada’s aboriginal artists. To see beyond the surface, whether it be the early ambiguous schematics of something/someplace, or the current painting process whereby the dance of paint application, movement, direction, tools and their manner of use inform its’ significance, either as an object/painting unto itself or having further consequential narratives and visual theatrics beyond the surface. The paintings have the appearance of being lit from within, and use edge bars, and other geometric counterpoints to create the dynamics of push and pull oppositions of colour, structures, and gestural mark making. “Tripping The Light” simplifies notions, and sensibilities of mark making into a cohesiveness of intent, paint application and implied meaning or interpretation.

1972-75 BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design - painting, drawing, & lithography
1974 Banff Centre, Alberta - summer program

2017 “A Gathering of Angels” The Studio Parker’s Cove, NS, Dec 2017 – May 2018
2017 “Tripping The Light”, The Artists House, Annapolis Royal & Art Lab, Parrsboro, NS
2016 “Ten Days in October”, Fundy Geological, Museum October 1 – 10, Parrsboro, NS
2015 “Return Of the Lightkeeper”, Enriched Bread Artist Studios, Ottawa, March
2015 “The Cromarty Works” The Stables, Cromarty, Scotland, UK, November
2015 “Holding Spring”, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, NS, April 18 – May 17
2011 ‘Blue Pools,” Gallery Page and Strange, Hfx, NS, September 2 -23
2010 “Geometry of Desire”, curator - Marcelle Belliveau, Le Trécarré Galerie,
Universite-Saint Anne, Pointe D’Eglise, NS, Canada, 01 to 02,2010
2009 Recent Works, Ingrid Mueller Fine Arts, Fredericton, NB, April 3 -24
2008 A Gathering of Lines, Gallery Page and Strange, Hfx, NS, Nov 7 -28
2008 At the Border, Borderline Gallery, Mae Sot, Thailand March 2008
2006-8 Wayne Boucher : Radiance and Counterpoint, guest curator Peter Dykhuis
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Sept 1 - Oct 22, AGNS Yarmouth, Oct 29 - Jan.5,...