Elaine Kowalsky

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Skyscapes

An investigation in drawings and oil sketches

The series of land and sky oil sketches are about the fragmentation of the landscape.

It is an investigation of the natural world around us as sight bites, caught in glimpses, seen in passing.

As over industrialised digital aware citizens of a fast moving modern society we dismiss the natural world to digestible pieces that fit in and around urbanized life.

The beauty and power of the sky and land are too easily dismissed with our eyes cast down towards our immediate and over powering everyday world.

When the fury and unpredictable natural world does intrude we once more are brought back to the realisation that all that out there, "the other" is the planet upon which we are dependent.

   

  
Cloud studies 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 16.5 x 32cm2005, Oil on Canvas, 14 x 37cm
  
  
Dungeness, Kent 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 27.5 x 50cm 
  
  
We were neer Dungeness 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 39.5 x 36cm2005, Oil on Canvas, 38.5 x 35.5cm
  
  
Towards Dover - Gulls over Kent 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 44 x 42cm2005, Oil on Canvas, 15 x 35.5cm
  
  
Looking west towards Portage la Prarie 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 43 x 40cm2005, Oil on Canvas, 43 x 40cm
  
 
  
Storm clouds over Erikson, Manitoba 
2005, Oil on Canvas, 31 x 28cm