Country Side

About Country Side

This minimalist oil abstract painting features a country landscape.

Over an impressive career that has spanned decades, Canadian artist Pat Service has refined her own distinctive visual language, moving from realism to minimalism. This artwork is from her ‘Less and More series’, inspired by many cross-country road trips. Service recalls the view from her car—the neat lines of a farmer’s field, a stand of trees, hills in the background framed by a cloud-filled sky and a road stretching into the distance. The simple modern colour palette of slate gray and bright orange invites the viewer to focus on the form and composition.

“Shapes and shades of the roads and hills, stripped of detail, honour the pure focus of a painter. Colour, line, texture and composition are the players; the playground is the canvas.” Pat Service

“Like Cezanne, she is able to describe an object with one simple brush stroke, and her strokes are some of the most intriguing: soft but rough, energetic yet still.” Anya Georgijevic, artist and curator

Pat Service acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of B.C. and later studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Service’s work is held in private collections in North America, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Pat Service is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.