Canadian artist Joel Masewich has been working as full-time abstract artist for the past eighteen years. He currently lives and works in the hamlet of Salem, on the outskirts of the village of Elora in southwestern Ontario. Throughout his career, select original works have been featured in exhibitions and galleries across Canada and the United States. His art is collected by both private individuals and major corporations.
The artist is distinguished for his technique of layering and intermixing paint with palette knives and brushes; leaving a sharp and lively interplay of color. Masewich works with acrylic on paper, custom panels and canvas. His multi-layered, imaginary works represent his emotional response to landscapes, events or ideas and bridge the representational and abstract. Many of his paintings are horizontal and contain visual references to water or light. More recently, his canvases are evolving to include collage elements- from steel shapes to glass shards.
“By combining various mediums, stainless steel and acrylic paint, I try to capture the feeling and create a bridge to the expressive quality of the moment, the multiple ways of seeing a landscape, the hidden compositions of color and texture and the hidden energy we all sense in the land - abstracting a cascading stream into gestures of color and light”.
