Moon Shadow 2 - Oil on Masonite 32.5'' x 60''

The light shimmering across Pauline Horricks' paintings has neon highlights suggesting that her still life and landscape scenes might be unfolding on some distant planet. These aren't the warm oranges of the southern sun or the damp rays of the tropics. The North Ontario native shows an uncanny sensibility for capturing green, blue, silver and purple light from the moon as it plays among the trees and rocks of the Boreal Forest. Horricks harnesses this light to tease out every detail of surface and texture in an extremely sharp, stylized beauty. With the moon as her probing spotlight, she presents the northern forest as a carefully staged and dramatic scene.

Though Horricks often incorporates great swaths of darkness into her paintings, these enveloping shadows allow our attention to wander into her exquisitely rendered spaces. A meticulous style of application and attention to detail compliments her aesthetic. In the hyper-real lines and lighting, viewers begin to perceive the smells of the forest and the sensual profiles of stones, leaves and tree trunks. Horricks' ability to conjure memories of distant forests adds to the uncanny experience of her work. Presenting familiar scenery cast in a light that seems barely natural, she creates a landscape that is both surprising and seductive.

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