Side Road (Red)

About Side Road (Red)

This minimalist abstract painting of a landscape offers a pop of the colour red.

Canada’s Pat Service has enjoyed a decades-long career that granted her the title of one of Canada’s finest landscape artists. She has experimented and explored various genres during that time moving from a realistic style to this minimalist form. This horizontal work is from her ‘Less and More series,’ inspired by many cross-country road trips. Service recalls the view from her car—the neat lines of a farmer’s field, hills in the background, and a road stretching into the distance. The distinctive modern colour palette of lime green, yellow, black, and white for contrast, and the red ribbon of the road makes the piece pop!

“Shapes and shades of the roads and hills, stripped of detail, honour the pure focus of a painter. Colour, line, texture, and composition are the players; the playground is the canvas.” Pat Service

Pat Service acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of B.C. and later studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Service’s work is held in private collections in North America, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Pat Service is represented exclusively by the Oeno Gallery.