"On the Strip," 45" x 60"

"On the Strip," 45" x 60"Arizona + Las Vegas. Acrylic on Canvas. This painting is inspired by my road trip across the American Southwest. The landscape was breathtaking. While hiking through the Grand Canyon, from rim to rim, I couldnt help but imagine a city within its walls. In this piece, I perch architecture from Las Vegas on the edge of the Grand Canyon in Arizona to explore ways we could coexist with nature. Amy Canadian born Amy Shackleton is a skilled urban landscape

in order to elicit the strongest of emotional bonds with her viewers

Colours and shapes take on an energy of their own and each layer of texture and colour I add reinterprets my thoughts and emotions

“When I was younger

We can almost miss that beauty if we forget to look

Anam Feerasta is a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Toronto

and how the richness of the metallic gold brings out the depth of the painting

Sometimes to clear we must first make a mess

to be in the moment and not worry so much about where everything is going to land or end up

Anastasia loves to give my works a sculptural appearance and build up her oil layers

“I painted slowly and softly

I wanted to bring life back into the city while still holding onto a more moody palette that would reflect the changes the core has undergone over the past two years

The dense ivy