Northern Oasis

About Northern Oasis

This acrylic landscape by Pat Service captures a lakeside view in summer.

Nature has always inspired the artwork of Canadian artist Pat Service. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, she first established her reputation as a superb landscape artist. This is one of her earlier paintings, whose style is reminiscent of the artist David Milne and the impressionists she loved.
Here, a view of a lake is captured from the shore, framed by trees, the blue of the sky and water dominating the scene. It is a peaceful composition in an earthy colour palette of blues, greens, brown and white.

“Living close to nature for the first 12 years of my life indelibly imprinted on me an identity with trees, fields, creeks, lakes, dirt, rocks, the sun, the sky, gardens, plants, flowers, roads, and so on. Every time I start a new painting, I am attempting to honour and seal that connection. “ Pat Service

“The look of a place is a starting point in her attempt to get a picture that is more accurately evocative of the sense or “feeling” of place. In this, she shares a close affinity with the work of Canadian artist David Milne (1882- 1953).”
Gregory Elgstrand, writer/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.