Award-winning artist, Bert Liverance, creates larger-than-life floral paintings that are so alive you’re sure you can smell them. As a sculptor turned painter, Bert achieves a three-dimensional feeling through a highly realistic rendering of light and shadow. Bold compositions and vibrant colours round out his trademark style. Bert has been recognized by the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery, Botanical Artists of Canada, the American Society of Botanical Artists, the Southern Ontario Orchid Society, and the Royal Botanical Gardens Orchid Society. He has also designed floral coins for the Royal Canadian Mint. His work has been featured in publications, galleries, and juried exhibitions throughout North America and his paintings are in museums, embassies, public and private collections around the world.
I have been influenced by many artists including the French Impressionists with their bold colours and scenes of everyday life; the Canadian Group of Seven with their use of colour that featured the Canadian wilderness; and Georgia O’Keefe who put flower paintings front and center in the art world. But I would have to say the most significant influence in my work is the flowers themselves. The colour, light and shadows of each flower I see makes me want to pick up a paint brush and start painting.
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“Always in Bloom…” 1997 – Present, Oil Series – Oils on canvas featuring hyper-realistic oil paintings of flowers from around the world, garden favorites, wild flowers, water lilies, orchids, and tropical flowers.
"Georgian Bay Wildflowers" - Watercolour Series - Wildflowers from the shores of Georgian Bay Ontario.
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