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.

Gallery Reviews & Photos

The Following Photos and Reviews are recent exhibitions.

"By selecting a stand of trees, or grasses in a field, or the swampy edges of a lake, Chester manages to show us the poetry and the beauty in this seemingly ordinary rural neighbourhood. His images continue to cast a spell that takes us well beyond the natural landscape."

Illi-Maria Tamplin
Director/Curator of the Art Gallery of Peterborough

"We have coined the word "Windowscapes" to describe the popular impressionistic landscapes which have become somewhat of a trademark for Paul Chesters paintings. His wonderfully constructed, worked and painted wide wood frames, integral to his landscapes, are best described as 'windows' through which the viewer is treated to Chesters interpretation of his surrounding environs."

Bruce and Sally Rapp
The Russell Gallery of Fine Art

"... unrelated to the bustle of large urban centers, with ecology as its ultimate theme - an ecology that belongs as much to the mind as to nature, concerned with both living matter and the fundamental element of spirituality."
"... his own capacity for absorbing nature, by becoming one with it, guiding us peacefully towards a new vision of both landscape painting and Nature whose simplicity relies on the complexity of expression, on the collected knowledge emanating from an in-depth observation, rooted in the essence of life and experience."

Robert Bernier
Parcours L'Informateur des Arts

"With simplicity and texture, Paul Chester offers a unique view of the natural world, where image and frame corroborate to create a contemporary variation of the traditional landscape."

Dan and Lana Hudon
West End Gallery