Jennifer Caie Art
Looking Forward
The artwork you see, represents two passions: exploring wild places, and capturing the feeling of those places on my canvas. So, take your time, look around, and learn all there is to know about Jennifer Caie Art. Enter the wilderness!
artist and explorer
Walking
Wilderness
Walking
Jennifer Caie is a professional artist who lives and works in Dryden, Ontario. She loves to explore the land of Northwest Ontario and remote places in Canada, by every means possible! Snowshoeing being a favourite. Her work is inspired by her love of hiking and time in nature. She spends part of each day gathering inspiration, and much of
Jennifer Caie is a professional artist who lives and works in Dryden, Ontario. She loves to explore the land of Northwest Ontario and remote places in Canada, by every means possible! Snowshoeing being a favourite. Her work is inspired by her love of hiking and time in nature. She spends part of each day gathering inspiration, and much of the rest of her time painting what she has experienced.
Caie has been painting since she was a girl. She surprised her family by staying up all night with a new set of art supplies. She came up the following morning with a completed painting. It was so impressive that her mother refused to believe that it was her own creation!
Working primarily in acrylics, Caie paints on a range of supports, including canvas, wood, and glass. She is available for custom commissions.
Working
Wilderness
Walking
Jennifer Caie uses a range of approaches in her painting, from the application of thick, impasto acrylic applied with palette knife, to delicate line work. One of the defining features of her process is the application of multiple transparent layers of colour to the canvas. Working from light to dark and back to light, she often carves ou
Jennifer Caie uses a range of approaches in her painting, from the application of thick, impasto acrylic applied with palette knife, to delicate line work. One of the defining features of her process is the application of multiple transparent layers of colour to the canvas. Working from light to dark and back to light, she often carves out negative spaces with opaque lights.
Like many artists who are inspired by the great Canadian Shield, her work is occasionally compared with that of the Group of Seven. "I find particular resonance with the early landscapes of Lawren Harris, with their sense of place, bold use of colour, and tension created between light and dark.'
Wilderness
Wilderness
Wilderness
Many of my pieces are directly influenced by nature. I spend time every day exploring and then painting what I've just experienced. The magic hours- sunrise and sunset- are especially precious to me. The low light time of day, casts a knee-high beam of sunlight. It creates warm yellows, pinks, and purples, even in the cold snow of winter.
Many of my pieces are directly influenced by nature. I spend time every day exploring and then painting what I've just experienced. The magic hours- sunrise and sunset- are especially precious to me. The low light time of day, casts a knee-high beam of sunlight. It creates warm yellows, pinks, and purples, even in the cold snow of winter. As a result of close observation at the natural world, modified by my imagination, my paintings are heightened with more vivid hues and movement.
I have also witnessed the harmful impacts of man on nature. I paint to preserve the wilderness on my canvas.
Wild places such as these might not be there for long.