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Banff Centre Midsummer Ball Weekend attracted more than 330 guests and raised $1.2M, making it Canada's single most successful arts fundraising event. In association with Canada House Gallery, I donated "Evening Song" (18x72 inches) to the event.

Evening Song, 18x72 inch, mixed media, 2014

Latest Exhibition

Here's a few mountain-scapes from my exhibition at Canada house Gallery in Banff, AB earlier this summer.

A selection of Paintings

This is a cross section of work spanning 6 years. They are mixed media works, combining photography and acrylic painting. In all my work I try to create a sense of drifting memories. Part reality, part forgotten and mostly imagined.

My Technique

Curious about how I make a painting? Here's a little insight into my technique.

This example of my technique is from my latest show, "Liquid Light" at Canada House Gallery in Banff earlier this year.

SNEAK PEEKS JUST FOR YOU!

My SNEAK PEEK Newsletter features my absolute latest work right out of the studio. See it before anyone else!

Upcoming Exhibits:

Toronto International Art Fair October 24 - 27, 2014 rep. by Bau-Xi Gallery Metro Convention Centre, Toronto "Gardens of Europe" Dec. 7 - 21, 2014 Bau-Xi Gallery 340 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada

Where to find my work

My paintings are sold exclusively by the galleries listed below. You won't find 'em anywhere else.

Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto Canvas Gallery Toronto Canada House Gallery Banff, Alberta Galerie de Bellefeuille Montreal

Description of Work My latest series of mountain-scapes is based around Sunshine Village in Banff and Mount Baker in Washington. I spent 2 weeks last summer doing hikes up various mountains with my parents. These brief visits that i spend with my parents mean a great deal to me and are usually a source of funny anecdotes. My dad's 81 now and has been an old-school outdoorsman his whole life. He surveyed a lot of northern BC and Alberta, and is full of interesting stories about wildlife encounters and difficult and dangerous maneuvering with vehicles and helicopters. Today, his adventures are less extreme but both my parents are still outdoor enthusiasts. My dad starts his summer by sliding into a pair of rainbow coloured flip flops, (which he found on a beach and fixed up with a needle and dental floss), then packs a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and heads up the trail. My mother (75) follows at a slower pace in her soft pink and mint sweatsuit (which she got in Hawaii in the 70's) and a walking stick. The scene looks completely absurd when they're traversing a washed out trail on a sheer vertical face or knee deep in a swamp, trudging their way through cat tails and fallen trees, stopping now and then to inspect some flowers or an interesting piece of wood. My dad also spends 4 months of the year living on his sailboat, charting his way up and down the gulf islands. I've grown up with, and adopted for myself, this wonderful ease and enjoyment from nature walks and spending time on the water. The feelings of being grounded and expansive on these outings are so rich that it's easy to make spiritual associations to it. This latest series of paintings are largely about the mystical energy of nature and revealing a hidden magical world. I've made many of the landscape scenes less about location and more about the boundary between reality and mystical happenings. It's a world that is both here and not here, just out of reach as you step closer. Most of the occurrences happen in the skies, where unusual atmospheric events and swirling energies turn familiar scenes into something other worldly. In the way that animals detect danger in the air before we do, I use flocks of birds as both messengers and bringers of these events. It's intentionally unclear if the swirling lines are flight paths of the birds or some electrical storm that has brought this other world to us. It is up to the viewer to decide what these events are about, whether they're friendly, spiritual or threatening. In a way, I also try to capture the emotional memory of a place instead of a documentary style image. This allows for a scene to be coloured by our experience, highlighting some features while others fade away or meld into some other vague memory. In the way that our minds can fuse together different memories into one event, I've made most of my landscapes from different views along the journey, adding a path here, removing trees there. I think the resin coating adds to the dreamlike quality of the work. I'm based in Toronto, ON and work with a great team of galleries across Canada that exhibit and sell my work all over the world.

MEDIA

Selected tv segments, magazine articles, and other mentions.

Candice Tells All Interview and featured artwork repeat airings - 2011 to present • Syndicated Interior Design TV Show with Candice Olson as host. Featured artist interview and artwork used in makeover. • Candice Olsen Kitchen and Bath website – artwork featured Canadian House and Home Makeovers Edition - featuring 2 of my paintings. 2014 West Coast Homes and Design Article about my 2013 exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. 2013 Keep it Chic Chic style and Fashion Blog 2012 • Must have - selected painting The Vancouver Sun Website Video coverage of my Bau-Xi Gallery exhibition "Ebb and Flow". 2011 Boulder Pavement - Banff Arts Centre Interview and featured artwork Issue 4 2011 Eyes-in Magazine Article - Visual Arts Magazine Issue 3, page 39 2011 Divine Design with Candice Olson TV show - Interior Design Artwork featured several times 2010 Steven and Chris TV show - Interior Design 2008 • Website feature: Must have - selected painting National Post 2 segments with Nathalie Atkison, featuring several paintings 2007 The Globe and Mail “Wish List”, Sarah Richardson, “Koi on Divine Blue” 2007 Canadian House and Home December, “City Living” featuring “Illuminated Landscape” 2007 Cityline • Cityline with Marilyn Dennis, “The art of Hanging” featuring “Koi In Floating Pond” • Cityline, Home & Garden Online article, “The Big Picture” by Lisa Rogers, featuring “Koi in Floating Pond”

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Welcome to the paintings of

Steven Nederveen "My work is a meditation on memory. How it re-colours, elaborates, and re-envisions the “real.”