Jerald Blackstock

I was born in the Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, my grandfather was a homesteader near Blue Rock. The Bow Valley has been my life.

After working as the Art Director at Chinook Plastics, where I supervised and produced the architectural signage for large projects such as the Cave and Basin in Banff and the University of Calgary I moved on to a career at Art School (Alberta University of the Arts) where after 6 years of study I taught painting and drawing. (c.v.)

By editing to create fleeting moments of exaggerated light, colour and pattern, my contemporary approach to digital painting has created a body of work that is brimming with nostalgia for my first homes, the street, and the mountains.

The works are similar in spirit to Nouvelle Vague:

“From this passion for cinema they developed a belief in the theory of the auteur: that is, a conviction that the best films are the product of a personal artistic expression and should bear the stamp of personal authorship, much as great works of literature bear the stamp of the writer.” © 2008 Simon Hitchman

“(An artist) makes liberal use of artistic license to significantly embellish or change the circumstances of real-life incidents by any means possible” – Rosalind E. Krauss.