Outdoor Artist Bling – Chris Dawber

Curly-haired artist, Chris Dawber, has finally gone public with a series of twelve paintings that echo him all over. From his Bear & Jackal Studio outside Kingston, Ontario, Canada, they are compelling themes from his dreams.
A list of the paintings: Sandcranes, Southwest, Sris-Crow, Algonquin Shore, Artic Spring, Fossils, Grandfathers, Gull, Interpretations, Trickster & The Ancestor and Runoff.
‘Interpretations’ make you think Chris must’ve collaborated with Dan Brown. Religious imagery in what seems to be inscribed in solid gold; mystical and many-faceted, this is the sort of work you expect o see under glass with a guard. It has a worshipful air.
‘Grandfathers’ is a stand of tall birches, fencelike at sunset, but never still. Memory is imbedded in them with a certain peace.
‘Sris-Crow’ mates with his ‘Trickster & The Ancestor’ two deeply-moving works bursting with story and metaphor.
‘Fossils’ has a glow as though they were waking from a deep, jewled sleep.
‘Run-off’ feels as though Chris sat down on a riverbank in the cold spring and got his brush out.
‘Gull’ soars, birds from a brush seem to be a specialty here. Flight seems a simple thing here, possible destiny.
‘Sand-cranes’ is my favorite right now. Like stained glass set in waning light, this jeweled imagining is the sort of picture you hope you might someday see.
‘Southwest’ has a true aridity, all the colours true.
‘Algonquin Shore’ gets that fabled area right with the first brushstroke.
‘Arctic Spring’ feels like breakup.
Chris’s work has jewels, glass, found objects, natural history in glint and glimmer. His love for the outdoors is obvious in his attention to the small details of natural life.
This is Dawber’s first time showing his work online. His work speaks to me on many levels. I’m a BIG fan!