By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by Canadian painter Denise Maxwell (born 1951 in Ontario, Canada).

Canadian artist Denise Maxwell lives on the Pacific West Coast of British Columbia in the Vancouver area. This Canadian coastline is an artist’s paradise, renowned for its beautiful snow-capped mountains, rainforests, picturesque waterways and expansive ocean views. 

Denise’s interest in landscape painting started at a young age when she started sketching the flora and fauna around her childhood home. She grew up in Ontario surrounded by the same countryside that Canada’s Group of Seven painted. She spent many holidays with paint and canvas exploring the Ontario landscapes. Her early work was inspired by Tom Thomson and A. Y. Jackson in particular. 

Denise discovered that working outdoors on location gave her pieces a fresher, more vibrant quality than working from photographs in a studio. Though for many years she worked as a graphic artist, she took every opportunity she could to head out to the country to paint landscapes.

Now dedicated full time to her painting, Denise works primarily in oils and en plein air whenever weather permits; still life or portraits in her studio when it doesn’t.

In recent years Denise has been studying with Barry John Raybould through his online campus, the Virtual Art Academy and in Italy where she did a workshop with Barry in Tuscany. 

Her goal now is to develop her en plein air landscapes into larger studio paintings.
 

Recent Exhibitions
 

-2017 Cypress Paint On The Mountain Challenge and Group Show

-2017 BC Plein Air Artists Exhibition

-2017 Port Coquitlam Art Group Show

-2016 Capture Coquitlam Exhibition

-2016 Cypress Paint On The Mountain Invitational and Group Show

-2015 Portrait Project 100, Our Time, Our Town

-2013 An Artists View of Port Coquitlam

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  Gallery #631   

  February 21, 2018