National Gallery of Costa Rica – San Jose, Costa Rica
February 2-29,2012: View invitation
Meewasin Valley Centre – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
July & August 2012
Hague Gallery – Regina, Saskatchewan
September 2012
``The exhibition will highlight my work as an emerging Saskatchewan painter and collage artist while encouraging discussion towards action on the environment and in particular the protection of forests.
In conjunction with the exhibition, I am pleased to feature works from my art students from both Canada and Costa Rica."
About “Portraits of Survivors” Images of large trees emerge through layers of acrylic paint and collage on stretched canvas in my series titled “Portraits of Survivors”.
This body of work was painted in the tropical forests of Costa Rica. I am intrigued by the giants that loom up above the other trees. They must have been the ones that were not cut down through deforestation. The secondary forest is emerging all around them, but it is slow. It is said that when regeneration begins it can take a century for recovery back to the original state as a primary rain forest.
The paintings are imbedded with butterfly wings and skeletonized leaves found in the forest. Other collage remnants are stamped prints of leaf venation and ferns on dyed tissue paper. In the paintings they become the symbols of the living ecosystem dependent on each tree for existence. Through these tree portraits I have focused on the individual old growth trees, survivors of earlier times.
To look at a tree, each with its own unique form and contribution to the forest is to gain wonder about our own individual existence.
Featured Works of Art at “Portraits of Survivors” (Click on image to enlarge)
“Art is meant to reveal, explore, and challenge the world. I need to express each tree in some fashion to illustrate the significance; it’s my job.” Linda Moskalyk
Last One Standing 36" x 36 "
Collage & Acrylic on canvas
Original image for Last One Standing:
Details of Last One Standing
Old Man's Beard 36" x 36 " Collage &
Acrylic on Canvas
Original image for Old Man's Beard
Living Legacy 36" x 36 "Collage &
Acrylic on Canvas
Original image for Living Legacy
The Sentinal 72" x 40 "
Collage &
Acrylic on Canvas
Original image for the Sentinal
Going Topless 36" x 36
Collage & Acrylic on canvas
Original image for Going Topless:
Dream of a Better World 72
" x 40 "Collage & Acrylic on canvas
“I am hedging, not facing the problem before me how to express the forest – pretending I must do this and that first.... but the other should come first; it’s my job.” - Emily Carr
Vincent Van Gogh never sold a painting within his lifetime. Value often goes unrecognized.
After deforestation it takes almost a century for a forest to recover back to its primary state. We must recognize the value of planting trees.
"Once, in another time, I believed that souls resided in trees. I worked a lifetime tracing branches seeking out the one tree that would hold my spirit.
I once thought I could know a tree’s source, to pull back the bark and see a code, each tree a shining universe. Taken from - The Last Arborist by Paul Wilson
Exhibitions 2012 
2012 “Portraits of Survivors”
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