24×48
acrylic on canvas
2019
Mountains.. The great obstacle, are often used in my work as a metaphor for the goals and challenges we overcome in our life. The figure is cast beneath its goals and aspirations, but the larger shadow casts the lengths in which he has prepared to overcome them. Or is the figure past the mountains walking away with the shadow reflecting the legacy of what was overcome? But no matter where he ends up the plain in the beginning is the same as the end.
18×24
charcoal and conte
2021
When we realize our goals, the road is no longer winding, but a fog is still cast over what’s to come.
18×24
charcoal and soft pastels
2021
16×20
acrylic on canvas
(2021) The man is a silhouette. Which direction he is facing is uncertain. If the man is walking towards the shadows, the piece becomes about choices and the paths we take to build who we are. But if he is walking away from his shadows it is about fate and how all roads lead to the same place.
16×20
acrylic on canvas
Nothing says contemporary painting in 2021 better than bubblegum pink. This painting is a colourful rendition of a painting I made when i was 16 years old.
12×16
Acrylic on canvas
2018
I remember a few weeks of uncertainty with this painting before I decided it was perfect the way it is.
12×16
acrylic on canvas
2006
The separateness of human experience. The shadow-like figures are clad alike in suits. They occupy the same picture frame and yet all walk alone. Followed by their shadow. The dichotomies of inner and outer self, physical and spiritual, conformity and solitude all combine to convey the brutal enforcement of experience. That we may share the same space and time, but living and dying in our own worlds.
14×18
acrylic on canvas
2010 second year studying at Ottawa school of art with Blair Sharpe.
16×20
Acrylic On canvas
2010
I Painted this in my second year at Ottawa School Of Art. The point where these two busses became the only 2 at the stop was just a random choice that had nothing to do with my life at the time. Although 6 years down the road I moved in right next to this bus stop.
16×20
acrylic on canvas
2010 second year studying at Ottawa school of art with Blair Sharpe.
16×20
acrylic on canvas
2010 second year studying at Ottawa school of art with Blair Sharpe.
12×16
acrylic on canvas
2010 second year at Ottawa school of art. Painting with late artist Blair Sharpe (1954-2019). In this class my professor Blair Sharpe was quite the master of colour. He saw my tendency to be afraid of colour in our early stages of development, and pushed me to use more colour “just put a little bit, somewhere”. If you zoom in on the umbrella you may notice the gold dot at the top. However bit by bit I have developed my use of colour over the years and it has become one of my strengths.
8×11”
oil ink mono type on Bristol paper
Love bound by the thick roots of time. sheltered under the same roof. The dreamers imagined fictions hardy and leak proof.
Nicholas Edwards Art 