Stofer Gallery – Art
3700 Lake Road, Denman Island
1-250-335-3246
Open Year Round - 3700 Lake Road
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
This welcoming studio and gallery offers a broad range of imaginative paintings bridging abstraction and representation. Don’t miss this…
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About Stofer Gallery – Art
About Stofer Gallery – Art
Some painters turn the sun into a yellow spot, others turn a yellow spot into the sun – Pablo Picasso
It is no accident that the Gulf Islands are home to many creative people. Artists, like anyone else, must focus to get any work done. Distractions abound! Here, I feel a sense of peace.
“Playing with intent” is in my nature. I observe intensely and respond visually. Rather than immediately recording what I see, I let things percolate, then they can emerge later in the studio, having gone through the filter of my imagination. Thus I paint largely from memory.
Elements of the composition reveal themselves as the work progresses. I respond mark by mark.
For me painting is an intuitive process, enriched by experience.
It requires attention and self scrutiny, combined with work, repetition, consideration and revision.
I love the process of grappling with painterly issues, am delighted by gesture and colour.
Everything, even inanimate objects express a gesture or attitude. It is the first thing we notice even from afar.
That person is angry. That dog is frightened. That chicken is ….astonishing!