Roadside Turnout I (from the Trans-Canada 150 Project) - Archival Print

Name: Roadside Turnout I (from the Trans-Canada 150 Project) - Archival Print
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Price: 75.0 CAD
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By Carol Loeb

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The Trans-Canada 150 Project

During the 150^th year celebrations of Confederation, I travelled along the entire Trans-Canada Highway with my friend and fellow artist Alison Grapes. From St. John’s to Victoria, we stopped every 150km to find the subjects and inspirations for a series of 106 paintings, 53 by each of us. Our route took us through every province, including a side loop from the main highway through Prince Edward Island. The paintings were created during the two years that straddle July 1^st 2017, visually describing Canada’s sesquicentennial.

The Story Behind the Artwork and the Trans-Canada 150 Project

It all began one rainy week in the spring of 2016. While touring in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, my husband and I were frustrated by the constantly inclement weather that discouraged us from taking our planned hikes in the gorgeous mountainous terrain. Over the radio came a call to action: what are you doing for Canada’s 150^th anniversary? Slowly the germ of an idea developed: traveling across Canada as the Group of Seven artists did 100 years before, but on the highway instead of the train. The number 150 led to the number of kilometres between the stops in honour of the 150^th anniversary.

But, could this really be done? Could I really find enough subjects to paint at so many seemingly random locations along the road? I decided to test it out. At the next turnoff on the narrow mountain road, we found a beautiful lake surrounded by conifers and rocks – so Canadian, so Group-of-Seven-ish. This could work. On returning to the car, however, the pattern created by the water-filled tire tracks curving through the gravelly mud captured my attention. This was my inspiration. If it hadn’t been raining all week – if it hadn’t been muddy and miserable and cold – if it hadn’t been for us being in the car on such a rain-soaked day listening to the radio, this project would never have been conceived.

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Made with Archival Papers and Canvas
Giclée Printed Archival Inks
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Roadside Turnout I (from the Trans-Canada 150 Project) - Archival Print

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About the Artist

Carol Loeb

Carol Loeb is a Signature member of the American Artists Professional League, a Senior Signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and an Elected Member of the Society of Canadian Artists. She earned a Fine Arts Certificate from Fanshawe College and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Art History from McMaster University. She worked as a commercial artist in Toronto for several summers before beginning her 32-year career as an art teacher in schools across Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Kuwait, the Philippines and the USA. She was the Senior School Visual Art instructor at Lower Canada College in Montreal until focusing on her own art full-time in 2020.

Her earliest influence was her uncle, British artist and inventor William Pugh. On an extended visit to Europe in the 1980s she was struck by the use of colour, technique and composition in the works of the impressionists and post-impressionists, and particularly of Monet and van Gogh. She is also inspired by the intent of the Group of Seven to visually describe and present the Canadian landscape to the world, and by Canadian artist Lawren Harris in particular.

Carol’s main focus is the landscape, both rural and urban. Inspired by ordinary scenes, she imbues her paintings with a life derived from the subject itself. Working in acrylics, she builds her works in layers of colour, creating luminous images conveying visual as well as emotional depth. Calm, contemplative settings dominate in her work. In the lead-up to Canada’s 150th anniversary she conceived and executed the Trans-Canada 150 art project, a cross-continental documentation of the Canadian landscape along the Trans-Canada Highway from coast to coast, culminating in a series of 52 studio paintings and a book. More recently, she has concentrated on industrial and urban subjects, and landscapes that include evidence of human habitation .

Since turning her focus more towards her own work beginning in 2009, Carol has presented numerous solo shows and taken part in group exhibitions in Canada, Italy and the USA. Her work has been awarded prizes and earned recognition in exhibitions presented by the Federation of Canadian Artists, the American Artists Professional League, the Northwest Watercolor Society, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society, among others. Her work has been featured in Billie Magazine, The Artists’ Magazine as a winner of the Over 60 competition in 2020 and in Artist Talk magazine in 2021.