Windfall Blue

About Windfall Blue

This contemporary abstract floor sculpture is made from wood painted blue.

Since the 1980’s, Shayne Dark’s singular artistic vision has been to reflect the timeless beauty of nature in new and surprising ways.
Celebrated for his inspired use of colour and organic form, the abstract shape of this floor sculpture is a classic example of the Canadian artist’s unique visual language. This piece is made from an applewood burl—the knotty part of a fruit tree collected from abandoned orchards in Prince Edward County, Ontario. The dense burls were stripped of their bark and allowed to dry over several years. Dark coated this wooden burl in a matte blue finish that accentuates its intriguing form and mounted it on a stand. The series of sculptures are painted in different colours that can be grouped together to create a dynamic composition.

My “ work is meant to stimulate a spiritual or visceral reaction in the viewer.”
Shayne Dark

“Dark seeks to reveal the inner beauty of the things around us with the aim of fostering a direct contemplation of the world, without the mediation of the artistic sphere. In this sense, his approach is part of a renewal of our ways of undoing and inhabiting places.” Katie Chagnon, Art Reviewer

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.