Small Surprise

About Small Surprise

This landscape painting of mountains, rivers and forests is by Pat Service.

A Canadian artist, Pat Service, is highly regarded as one of our finest landscape painters. During a career that spans decades, the prolific artist has embraced many genres, from traditional landscapes like this to abstraction and minimalism.
Her impressive oeuvre began documenting the mountains, forests and water she grew up near on the coast of British Columbia. Her style in this earlier piece is noticeably influenced by a love of the Impressionists. Delicate brushstrokes define a cloud-filled blue sky above a looming mountain —the lush green forests, a river winding through the center of the canvas, anchored by a section of fence and dabs of pink wildflowers. It is a serene scene rendered in pastoral colours.

“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

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.