Horizon Series: Hokasi Di-Stilled

About Horizon Series: Hokasi Di-Stilled

This abstract oil painting by David Sorensen is one of his Horizon series.

An important contemporary Canadian artist, David Sorensen’s impressive body of work spanned decades. Influenced early in his career by some of the world’s best abstract expressionists—Picasso, de Kooning, Rothko, and Riopelle, his large-scale abstract paintings expressed his singular vision of light, colour, landscape and in this case the horizon. in this piece bands of colour in a modern turquoise, and bright orange frame the canvas and play against a soft gray backdrop.
A light yellow border surrounds the painting. The layered texture is visceral.
One of a series.

“(With this series I create the) experience of a vast and calming imaginary place: the horizon, a kind of passageway to a state of mind.” David Sorensen

“Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer

David Sorensen was born in Vancouver and (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson, Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt. After moving to Montreal, he taught art at the Montreal School of Art, the Saidye Bronfman Centre and Bishop’s University for almost 20 years. Sorensen, a member of the RCA exhibited all over the world. His work is held in numerous private, corporate and public collections.