Milly Ristvedt

Western Sky Emma Lake (Diptych) - contemporary, abstract, acrylic on paper

1988

This colourful abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt has a green backdrop. In the 1980s, Milly Ristvedt’s artistic journey continued to embrace colour and abstract form as he...

This contemporary abstract acrylic painting on paper is by Milly Ristvedt. Few artists ever attain the kind of notoriety and accolades that Milly Ristvedt has rightly achieved. Sin...

This abstract painting on paper by Milly Ritsvedt features spring-like colours. The provocative power of colour is fully evident in the vivid hues of this painting by master colouri...

Horizontal bars of blue, maroon, cherry red, pink, lemon yellow, burnt orange and green communicate on a soaked sand-coloured ground in the two panels that form this 9-foot square acrylic diptych painting on canvas. The rhythm of the spaces between the short lengths of colour creates a dialogue of movement that leads the eye upwards through the large picture plane. About the inspiration for the work, the artist wrote: "This is one of the rare paintings that I saw clearly in a dream and painted almost exactly as I saw it. It relates back to the four-panel work, Lock-Up (1972), done a couple of months earlier, where I used the physical break between panels as an edge to anchor some colour bars. In Phoenix, some bars are anchored while others float within the larger ground colour." This painting was included in the exhibition catalogue Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade (1979). Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, she was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted...

"You Are Always on my Mind (Diptych)" is a lively, colorful diptych on paper. It is painted gesturally and dynamically and is part of abstrac...

Nina is an artist, ceramist and colorist with 20 years of professional experience and a lifetime of art appreciation. Originally from Virginia and having traveled and lived extensive...

Oniric Seascape is a beautiful mixed-media diptych that reimagines the ocean as an abstract cartography of color, texture, and movement. The artist blends collage, paint, and mark-m...

"Atmospheric ambiguity and a love of structure are long-time preoccupations and both are central to my work. Driven by a persistent curiosity to see where the work will lead me, I wo...