Born: Grande Prairie, AB, 1959
Price range: $950-$5000
Jim Stokes
In making and exhibiting my work since 1979, I have explored many approaches to making art. I continue to draw the figure with energy and enthusiasm. I have explored printmaking and for the last 6 years have done a great many experimental sculptures. The main constant of my work, has been the Alberta landscape. Almost all my exhibitions have presented paintings trying to extend this tradition of painting and interpreting the world around us. The wild places, the neat “tucked in” sections of agricultural land and the rolling folds of the prairie parkland. With this has been an obsession with the arch of sky and cloud above. Clouds the weather offer an endless subject with forms motifs that are simple, minimal and abstract to the wild and rococo! I find a lot of joy and pleasure in painting.
Available Works
Contre-jour Landscape
Sky Sketch
Winter Light
Countryside with Clouds
Summer Landscape
Landscape, Clouds and Shadows
Cloud and shadows with a bit of rain
Big Prairie (Sketch)
Cloud Sketch #17
Storm Sketch
Biography
Jim Stokes is an artist from Grande Prairie, Alberta. He has been painting and showing his work for 23 years in Alberta and across Canada. His many solo exhibitions have been for the most part a large on going series of painterly landscapes.
Fluid and gestural paint handling is played off against a sharp sense of light in the distance. Less known have been a series of interiors, a continuing group of figurative works, and many experimental prints and works on paper. Made with fairly traditional media, paint on canvas and paper as well as distressed wood panels, these works are frankly celebratory. The emotion from a place, a time of day, or some fragment of nature, has a rich resonance. I try to balance this with the influence of abstraction. All over mark making and the material nature of painting are important as well.