Remember Yesterday
Remember Yesterday
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Remember Yesterday

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JC Lee
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$720.00 CAD
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18" x 24"
Oil, molding paste and mica powder on canvas 2024

@jc.lee.artist

 

JC Lee is a Norfolk County, Ontario artist creating contemporary textured paintings of landscapes and nature with hints of fantasy!

His passion for painting started at a young age while growing up in Malaysia, learning to paint using watercolour at art classes that his parents enrolled him in. 

After a long hiatus from painting as other life pursuits including moving to Canada became a priority, JC's passion for art was rekindled by the beauty of the varied landscapes and wildlife in Norfolk County, Ontario while vacationing at a Turkey Point cottage.  JC now paints from his Turkey Point cottage which he shares with his husband and two dogs. 

JC taught himself techniques of oil and mixed media painting.  He paints with a distinct personal style, creating a combination of textures with mixed media and blending with richly coloured oil paints to capture his inspirations, infusing them with emotion and magic on the canvas.  His painting compositions are in the vein of Magical Realism - rooted in realism but enchanted with fantastical elements and perspectives in stories depicted through scenes of nature.

 

THE STORY:

I painted "Remember Yesterday" to capture Norfolk County's rich tobacco farming history and a close friend's cherished childhood memory. 

In Norfolk County, many smaller family owned tobacco farms have now been repurposed into other horticultural/agricultural productions.  I love that many of the charming iconic stick kilns have been preserved.  My friend - Natalie Piron, grew up on a tobacco farm in Tillsonburg during tobacco's heyday.  She told me stories of how she used to play in the tobacco field.  She had so much fun running between rows of huge tobacco plants with her arms outstretched, and hands brushing against the large leaves as she ran.

 

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