Jamie Kapitain Artist

Artist Statement

Jamie is a Canadian landscape painter interested in developing a visual vocabulary that strikes a balance between efficiency and accuracy that will engage people’s relationship with the landscape. His practice is fueled by a passion for the landscape and executed with the unique perspective of a former landscape architect. Educated in ecology and landscape architecture, Jamie has an academic appreciation for the multi-faceted value of the landscape – ecological, cultural and spiritual – and his challenge is to reduce the amount of information to the point at which the viewer experiences the landscape in a meaningful way.

Arranging foreground elements to provide strategic entry into the depth of the landscape beyond, Jamie’s paintings invite the viewer to enter into the space. Vivid color and key details are captured to create an experience not far removed from actually being in the landscape. A painting is successful when it generates an emotional response in the viewer triggering a memory or awakening an appreciation for the landscape.

Artist Bio

Jamie was born and raised in downtown Toronto and summered in Ontario cottage country. As an undergraduate student at university, he studied science (ecology) while filling out his program with art criticism and architecture survey courses. Completing a Masters in Landscape Architecture in 1997, Jamie went to live in a cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and work at a ski resort design firm. Eventually, he returned to Canada and settled in Guelph where he lives with his wife and three children. Jamie's paintings have been accepted into important juried exhibitions including the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto Art Expo, Guelph Studio Tour and Art Gallery of Hamilton Fall Art Sale and are in private collections in Italy, New Zealand and throughout North America.

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