Artist Statement

Canadian artist Jonathan Forrest paints with an exuberance of colour and full shapes which fill his canvases. His artwork displays a unique colour sensibility and painting process which build upon lessons learned over forty years of studio work. Forrest sees an aspect of his painting practice as being a dialogue with his mentors and with the history of modernist painting. Forrest’s most recent body of work directly references his formative years, including a conversation with colour field painting from the 1960s through to the 1980s, and in particular the work of Christie and Perehudoff.