Grey Turns Black, water-soluble oil on canvas, 24 x 40 in. Framed by Wall Space
David Lidbetter | Impressions
November 10 - December 2
Reception + Artist Talk: Saturday, Nov 18 @ 3 - 5 pm, with an artist talk at 3:30 pm
Raffle: Win a framed fine art print of Grey Turns Black valued at $300, raffle tickets will be distributed to those attending the reception. Get your tickets at the door!
RSVP your attendance to responses@wallspacegallery.ca
Presales will open Friday, Nov. 3 at 10 a.m, online, in-person, and over the phone at 613-729-0003. To request a pre-sale catalogue please e-mail info@wallspacegallery.ca
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Wall Space Gallery is proud to present David Lidbetter's latest exhibition of contemporary landscape paintings, Impressions. Lidbetter captures the quiet isolation of the Canadian winter landscape. Drawing from areas of the Ottawa-Gatineau region, Lidbetter transports us into familiar moments where atmosphere and mood dominate.
Don't Forget, water-soluble oil on wood panel, 12 x 10 in. Framed by Wall Space
Across his oeuvre is an attention to how the world is perceived through light and landscape's affect on our sense of place. Lidbetter, an avid outdoors man, spends many hours exploring the trails and paths from which he paints. Often considered to be continuing the tradition of landscape painting within a Canadian context, Lidbetter brings together the soft, free flowing colour of Romanticism, akin to Caspar David Friedrich, with the heightened palettes and celebration of Canadian wilderness of the Group of Seven.
Lidbetter well-known for his bold, minimalist approach to contemporary landscape is adept at balancing realism and abstraction, where soft edges bleed into one another and dapples of light and shadow break up picture planes into pattern. 
Morning Show, water-soluble oil on wood panel, 8 x 10 in. Framed by the artist
We look forward to welcoming you at the opening reception on November 18 from 3-5 pm. The artist will be in attendance.
For further information please contact the gallery at info@wallspacegallery.ca or 613-729-0003.
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Born in Hamilton in 1962, David Lidbetter developed an early appreciation for the Canadian wilderness. The time spent traveling with his family as a child through scenic provinces, along with an intensive art studio program in his formative teenage years, were the catalyst for his future painting career.
After many years of exploring a variety of media and subject matter, Lidbetter has spent the last decade painting highly identifiable and unquestionably Canadian landscapes. He works close to his home and studio in Aylmer, Canada. It is no coincidence that his work is reminiscent to the vistas explored by other landscape painters like Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.
David will spend hours and sometimes days in local forests and nearby lakes photographing, studying, sketching and absorbing the information he will later turn into larger paintings. He says of his ever-evolving work, “The scenes that capture me are often the ones that would immediately be overlooked by others. Something usually catches my eye, such as a change of light or a strong contrast of colour and shapes”