Jim Visser
Alberta…The open land, as observed primarily in Alberta’s expansive prairie spaces, is my ingrained organic living experience. So too are my many and varied visits in our mountains. Alberta is my home, my life, and my love. In painting the prairie spaces or high country, I am moved to ponder a possible interpretation of the moment. As a painter I wish to express my love and emotions for the revelations on display. In response to the beauty and grandeur, I put brush to canvas with a pronounced realism from the heart.
West Of Vulcan, oil on canvas, 24 x 60 inches (61 x 152.5 cm), framed, $3900 Cdn.
Paint Brushes, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm), exhibition frame, $2750 Cdn.
The President and Vice-President (Yoho), 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (61x91.5 cm), exhibition frame, $2750 Cdn.
Aspen Snow Shadows, 2023, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches (71 x 56 cm), exhibition frame, $2300 Cdn.
Tonquin Winter, Jasper, 2024, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm), framed, $2750 Cdn.
Mt. Temple From The Saddle, 2023, oil on canvas, 32x46.5 inches (81.5 x 118 cm), exhibition frame, $3600 Cdn.
Amiskwi Snow Scapes, oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches (40.5 x 61 cm), framed, $1800 Cdn.
Lake McArthur (Lake O'Hara), oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches (41x61 cm), exhibition frame, $1800 Cdn.
Road To Waterton, oil on canvas, 24 x 60 inches (61 x 152.5 cm), framed, $3900 Cdn.
Pyramid Mountain (Jasper), 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 18 inches (91.5 x 46 cm), exhibition frame, $2500 Cdn.
Parting Gold, 2023, oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches (40.5 x 76 cm), exhibition frame, $2100 Cdn.
Pyramid Mountain (Jasper), oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches (41x61 cm), exhibition frame, $1800 Cdn.
Hay Fields, oil on canvas, 12 x 36 inches (30.5 x 91.5 cm), exhibition frame, $2200 Cdn.
Lake O'Hara (looking west), oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches (41x61 cm), exhibition frame, $1800 Cdn.
Lake O'Hara, 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches (91.5 x 122 cm), exhibition frame.
Happy Clouds, 2023, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm), exhibition frame
Tranquil Expression, 2023, oil on canvas, 30x60 inches (76 x 152.5 cm), exhibition frame
Bow Lake, 2023, oil on canvas, 16 x 32 inches (40.5 x 81.5 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Cresting Canola, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 48 inches (51 x 122 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Lake O'Hara, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Moraine Lake, 2023, oil on canvas, 30x48 inches (76x122 cm), sold.
Larch Valley And Mt. Fay, 2023, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (76 x 61 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Lake Louise, 2023, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches (91.5 x 122 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Waterton Wildflowers, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 40 inches (51 x 101.5 cm), exhibition frame, sold.
Celestial Brush Strokes (Sweetgrass Hills), oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches (76 x 122 cm), framed, sold.
“Alberta is my home, my life, and my love.”
Alberta…The open land, as observed primarily in Alberta’s expansive prairie spaces, is my ingrained organic living experience. So too are my many and varied visits in our mountains. Alberta is my home, my life, and my love. In painting the prairie spaces or high country, I am moved to ponder a possible interpretation of the moment. As a painter I wish to express my love and emotions for the revelations on display. In response to the beauty and grandeur, I put brush to canvas with a pronounced realism from the heart.
Jim Visser was born in Holland, moved to Canada as a young boy, and settled into farming in northeast Edmonton with his family. He retired from years of full-time farming to a life of interpreting the Alberta lands, skies, and mountains with his paint brush.
His life as an artist was propelled by an extensive study period during the golden years of the University of Alberta Fine Arts Extension when he took drawing, watercolour, printmaking, and oil painting classes. In 2002 he attended an artist-in-residency program at Emma Lake in Saskatchewan.
"As I look and see I am compelled to interpret visually the soul of the scene, moment or memory."
He is a member of Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC as well as the Canadian Artist Representation of Canada. He is represented in corporate and public collections and has been featured in solo shows in Edmonton, Red Deer, St. Albert, and Stony Plain. His work may be found in public collections in the Royal Alexandra Hospital, W. W. Cross Cancer, and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic.
“Ours is the presence of the temporary. My paintings are my desire to capture the presence of the moment. I am motivated by a desire to respond to nature’s rhythm. I look for an offered tableau spread that begs interpretation. Our prairie spaces offer symphonies of shadow and light, movements of subtle quiet changing to fortissimo drama. How to express the feel of undulating land and reflecting waters? How to paint the moods of the ever-changing sky? Who am I in the realm so palpable, so fierce?”