Paul Chester - Landscape Paintings

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	Landscape Paintings These oil paintings represent rural areas of open fields, forests, big skies and distant horizons.

	Water Scenes Being by the ocean or a quiet lake has always inspired me. These paintings reflect my love of water.

	Flower & Garden Paintings My wife, an avid gardener, spends hours in her garden. These bouquets of colour surround my studio.

	The Extended Landscape With these paintings, the central image is extended outwards. The center is either an inserted separate panel or simply a painted image on canvas.

	Windows to Nature Series With these paintings, I have used wide hand crafted frames that are textured as in the painting. They are part of the painting and serve as a window to the scene.

The 5 albums to the left represent Paul Chester's latest collection of oil, acrylic and mixed media paintings. Click on the photos to enter each album.

Inspired by the horizons, water scenes and rolling hills that surround his studio in Southeastern Ontario, the contemporary landscapes of Paul Chester are in the tradition of Canada's impressionists,though infused with a modern sensibility. Various flat fields, swamps, flower gardens and luminous skies are recalled from memory resulting in suggested landscapes - mementos of peaceful experiences in natural retreats.

His poetic scenes invite the viewer to step into a spiritual realm where nature is experienced as an emotional reminiscence rather than a precise physical location.

Celebrating his 25th year as a professional artist, Paul Chester was born in Toronto and lives with his wife and two children in a rural area Northeast of Toronto.

Your inquires and comments on Paul's art are welcomed - to receive further information or to be added to his mail list: Email: pchester@paulchester.com