Chinook Coming In

“There’s no big complicated ‘idea’ behind it. It’s just all about the light. Seeing it, feeling it and trying to capture it as I see it around me. Compositions with a simple strong design that capture a ‘sense of place’ also attract me. If my work strikes the same visual and emotional chord in a viewer that it did in me when I painted it, if it can make that viewer feel real emotion then I’ve succeeded as a painter.”
 David Sharpe is a contemporary impressionist painter living in Cochrane, Alberta. Raised in the Canadian west, he is an  honours graduate of the Alberta College of Art and worked as an illustrator before moving east to pursue an award winning career in Advertising and Graphic Design. His work has been celebrated in a number of plein air exhibitions and is actively collected internationally.His workshop ‘Painting The Emotional Landscape’ is popular in Canada and the US. Mountain Galleries is pleased to represent David in Banff, Jasper and Whistler.