#9 – Me and My Shadow

Here we see an early piece, completed in 2011. The painting shows the initial experimentation with colour and texture that allowed him to develop his distinct style. This was the first painting of a mammal that I ever completed. Puffed up with a damp and disheveled winter coat, this red fox is at attention in its natural environment. The large pricked up ears and bright expression of the fox add to the feeling of innate focus. To honour the worn ochre orange winter fur, we see jagged and dense brush strokes detailing its petite frame.

Original Size: 20″ x 16″

Jeff Dillon the Canadian Artist, inspired by the bold colours and brush strokes of Post-Impressionist Artists. His unique style focuses on capturing light, not through the detail of realism, but with gesture, illusion, shape and colour. He offers a personal and distinctive style to the world through his bold use of colours and lines, often symbolic images or subject matter. Objects in the paintings retain their realistic appearance yet have a vibrancy and fluidity about them, unique to his work. Jeff Dillon’s new expression of Post-Impressionism is both beloved and revered in the Canadian and Global Contemporary Art World.

• Original completed October 2011
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• Completed on flat canvas board
• Search words: Fox, Animal, Winter, Snow, branches