Shawinigan Roadside

About Shawinigan Roadside

This acrylic landscape by Pat Service captures a roadside view of summer in the countryside.

Highly regarded as one of Canada’s finest landscape artists, Pat Service’s earliest works reveal her love of impressionism. Finely detailed, expressive brushwork and a vivid coloured palette are displayed in this large, peaceful painting of the countryside. Colours in blues, greens, orange, yellow and green create a pretty landscape. Shawinigan is a village on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. This is one of two paintings called Shawnigan Roadside—the other is a watercolour.

“My early influences were the paintings I saw at the Kelvingrove Gallery Museum in Glasgow. There were many Scottish artists being shown that had absorbed the best of the colour and brushwork coming from French artists, and I related to them.” 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.