Clive Russell
Clive Russell draws and paints in humble appreciation of the power and brilliance of the landscape. As an architect, he sees the geometry in natural forms, and tends to emphasize this in the composition and framing of his work- line drawings, acrylics, oil pastels and constructions of situations small and large.
Clive has loved painting and making things since he was a child. His first art classes outside of school were at the Edmonton Art Gallery. He studied architecture at the University of Manitoba, practicing architecture and planning for many years, and has taken courses in drawing, painting, and collage at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Toronto School of Art, and computer graphics at the University of Toronto and Central Tech.
For the past fifteen years, Clive and his partner, Sheree Rasmussen, have run a successful garden design and installation company in Toronto. A year ago they fulfilled a long-standing dream of moving into the country. Clive's current work is a response to this first year of living in the lovely landscape of Northumberland County; realizations of the power of the landscape to permeate one's existence; the projection of man made construction into the space of natural forms, and the inexorable, subliminal, subconscious advance of nature into our tidily furnished worlds.
Benito Juarez Hills
by Clive Russell
Isle of Wight
by Clive Russell
Killarney Colour
by Clive Russell
Niagara Falls
by Clive Russell
Ward's Island Beach
by Clive Russell
Wood Details
by Clive Russell