Arlene Wasylynchuk :: Canadian Artist

Current Series


Saltus Illuminati - Installation Saltus Illuminati, (the Forest Illuminated) is a synthesis of traditional landscape painting, abstract expressionism, sculpture and environmental art. Taking painting off the wall into a three dimensional space, this work becomes an environment for the viewer to experience .... view series >>

Saltus Series Saltus Series of paintings, while highlighting the fragility and precariousness of our forests that are endangered by Mountain Pine Beetle infestations, are multi layered. These paintings reference the stages of the pine tree's journey .... view series >>

Forest Sojourns The series, Forest Sojourns are expressionistic memories of forest perspectives and viewpoints. The works incorporate the idyllic, the primordial, the power and energy .... view series >>

Forest Passages The series, Forest Passages, deconstructs the forest landscape, layering the fractured parts into multiple perspectives and viewpoints. The works incorporate the idyllic, the primordial, the power and energy .... view series >>

Skyline Series Rooftop Interlude is a series of studies of the Vancouver Skyline seen from a rooftop Terrace that intermingles the vibrancy of the urban with the powerful presence of the natural setting... view series >>

Aftermath Organic debris left from the 2006 Vancouver Stanley Park Storm is used for mark making this series about environment, memory and life cycles. The work not only references the west coast forest, weather patterns... view series >>

Passages These works, rather than deconstructing a landscape, deconstruct paintings. They are an exploration into the parallel phenomenon in music where exquisite passages in a symphony... view series >>

Grounded While relating to the landscape which automatically conjures up foreground, background and vanishing perspective this series also deconstructs the traditional approach and is as much about bringing all elements together in multiple perspectives... view series >>

Earthbound A strong horizon point is the starting point from which the view is deconstructed, the fragments reassembled to compel the viewer to experience the power and complexity of our environment. Underlying an intrinsic reference to environment.... view series >>

Durrand Series Underlying all of my work is the approach to the painting or drawing as an entity in the world with its own reality rather than a window on the world. While inspired primarily by the essence of our geological and geographical world.... view series >>

Regeneration Regeneration arose from the remnants of a birch tree that was an integral part of my environment for over 30 years. Because of disease, the birch tree had to be chopped down and in the resulting dead twigs, ... view series >>

Mistaya All art is ultimately about finding connections to our environment, to our relationships, to our selves. In the Mistaya series, the paintings deconstruct the environment, reassembling it in multiple layers and perspectives that compel the viewer to search for.... view series >>

Spanish Series In the Andaluz series as well as the Feria series, the work captures a sense of the passing of time, heat and melody of Spain by layering elements of the geography, the passion and the culture through color and gesture. The work brings about.... view series >>

Drawing Drawing is a means to explore the "skeletal bones" of the landscape and the idea of the layered structures and forms of land, geology, culture, history and time. Through gestured mark making I map out the forms and the relationship.... view series >>

Canandiana This work involved painting trips into the landscape where expressive interpretation captured the energy and essence of the land in western Canada. view series >>