Storm Surge Tondo Red

About Storm Surge Tondo Red

This contemporary red abstract wall sculpture is made from mixed media.

For decades, Dark’s eclectic artwork has been inspired by the natural world that surrounds his home. His unique vision of using strong, raw materials and bold colour palettes has elevated his sculpture’s design and singled him out as a superb artist. This circular wall sculpture is created from layers of mixed media masterfully sculpted to create a highly textured surface. The almost baroque quality of this tondo is enhanced by its metallic red sheen. Dark's Storm Surge series is an inspired exploration of the line between painting and sculpture resulting in a surprising and disruptive abstraction.

“Experiencing the natural world will often give me a germ of an idea and then I run with it.” Shayne Dark

“Shayne Dark’s work results from a rhythmic and organic process involving ideas, feelings, images, formal play, and structural necessity. Every aspect of the process has the potential to hold meaning, to draw upon and focus our physical and perceptual experience of the world.” Helen Zenith, New Zones Gallery

Shayne Dark was born in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan in 1952. He began his professional art career in the mid-1980’s. In 2016, he became the artist in residence at the Brooklyn botanic garden. That followed a successful residency at the Albright Knox and Buffalo botanical garden in 2015. Soon after he was featured in the prestigious Sculpture magazine. At Art Basel in Toronto, Dark was named one of the top ten artists to watch. In 2017, Dark had a solo exhibition at New York’s Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the following year he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2022, Dark exhibited at the Cloud 9 Eco-Art Festival at No. 9 Gardens in the Rideau Lakes, Ontario. His work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. It can be found in numerous private, corporate, and public collections.