Renaissance

About Renaissance

Elegant form and a delightful pastel palette. This is ‘Renaissance’ , an abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt. The master colourist is playing with soft colours here—against a sky-blue palette washes of pinks and yellow dance across the canvas. Fine gestural lines in red, black, yellow and blue appear throughout the colour field adding palpable energy and visual interest.

“(my paintings became) intuitive, spontaneous, and visceral…a way of working that is more directly engaged with my life in the world – relationship to the land, the forces of nature, and a broader and deeper expression of thought and emotion.” 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.