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Overgrown Fenceline

Regular price$15,500.00 CAD Sale price
Overgrown Fenceline 2024
by Garry Kaye Acrylic Painter
32" x 42" (Framed)

"Creating this piece was an absolute joy for me. The vibrant autumn hues and intricacy of details that I prioritized capturing kept my passion alive until the very end."

As an alumnus of the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr Institute), where he focused on drawing, painting, and primarily sculpture, Garry has continuously returned to the island landscape as his artistic inspiration. In recent times, painting has become Garry's preferred form of artistic expression.

“My paintings aren’t of typical beauty. They come from the overlooked places—roadside thickets, hedgerows, and underbrush.”

Acrylic Painter Garry Kaye

Born and raised on Salt Spring Island, Garry Kaye is a Canadian painter known for his meticulously detailed acrylic landscapes. A graduate of the Vancouver School of Art in sculpture, he now focuses on dense, “unpretty” corners of the rural landscape—overgrown fencelines, tangled underbrush, forgotten edges. Using photo references and a grid-based process, he paints each work one small square at a time, revealing unexpected colour and quiet complexity.

Artist Statement

“I was born and raised on Salt Spring Island, and the landscape here has quietly imprinted itself on me. In my daily comings and goings, I’ve unconsciously absorbed details of sun and shadow, of hedges, ditches, and overgrown fencelines. These are not ‘postcard’ views. They’re places most people pass without a second glance, but for me they hold a subtle, intricate beauty that I try to honour in paint.”

Garry Kaye

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