Painter's work on display
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Updated: June 25, 2009 11:49 AM
There's always something going on in Pieter Molenaar's landscape paintings. The low horizons and vast expanses of sky are the stuff of drama, a stage for cloud formations that range from relatively benign to threateningly stormy.
But there is always a sense that things are in motion, that the day is evolving. And that, the Delta artist agrees, is part of the reason for the continuing success of his highly evocative canvases.
Molenaar's paintings will be on display for two weeks in the latest Atrium show at Jenkins Showler Gallery, 1539 Johnston Rd., opening Sunday (June 28, 1-4 p.m.) with the artist in attendance.
"I have been criticized many times for my dramatic skies, but there's always a happy accent somewhere," he said. "The sun is going to break through. As we say in Holland, 'after the rain comes sunshine.'"
Molenaar, who was born in Amsterdam, but has lived in Canada since 1979, has been represented by Jenkins Showler for the past five years.
His latest work, much of it depicting scenes near his Tsawassen home, Boundary Bay and Mud Bay, continues to draw inspiration from impressionism, but also the old Dutch masters.
"Skies are always turning me on in the fall," he said. "Even the rain, when it comes. The light is the major thing."
For more information, call 604-535-7445.
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