August Yellow Picture

About August Yellow Picture

A tapestry of glorious colour meets the viewer’s eye in this gorgeous abstract work by Milly Ristvedt. The master colourist uses bright yellow as a brilliant backdrop to a cloud of gestural swatches of red, pink, blue, brown, black, purple and white. Calligraphic markings in bright white add a spontaneous energy and visual interest to the piece. Ristvedt is known for her intuitive and masterful sense of colour that she uses as a means of expressing deep thought and emotion.

“My paintings are, and always have been, attempts not only to focus awareness of colour, but to put colour to use in making cohesive statements that go beyond the visual.” Milly Ristvedt

Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski and Frank Stella. Her work has been included in many publications, She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004 and honoured with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. She has won seven Canada Council awards and two Ontario Arts Council awards and had over 50 solo exhibitions and been part of countless group shows. Ristvedt's work can be found in major public collections throughout North America including the National Gallery of Canada.

Milly Ristvedt is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.