Lights in the Forest IV (still from Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev) (2), Circa 2026
Painting : oil · 30 x 41 x 4 cm 11.8 x 16.1 x 1.6 inch · Ready to hang
$1,261
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
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Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
30 x 41 x 4 cm 11.8 x 16.1 x 1.6 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
Deep indigo tones envelop this atmospheric scene. The composition captures a fleeting moment of cinematic mystery. Light pierces through a dense, nocturnal haze. Soft glows emerge like distant stars or flickering lanterns within a wooded expanse. The boundaries between nature and artifice blur.
The artist employs a sophisticated layering process. Opaque and translucent oil applications create a luminous depth. This technique allows light to radiate from within the canvas. It evokes the glow of a digital screen merged with the timelessness of stained glass.
The artwork transforms a filmic reference into a meditative landscape. Forms remain suggestive and ethereal. Shadows shift and blend into a seamless, dark void. This tension between visibility and concealment invites a quiet, introspective gaze. The painting balances structural precision with an airy, spectral quality. It focuses on the threshold of perception where the forest becomes a dreamscape of cool light and deep shadow.
Presentation
David Kaarsemaker holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. He was a finalist in the 2025 Salt Spring National Art Prize and the 2017 RBC Painting Competition. His work is included in the collections of Global Affairs Canada, the City of Ottawa, the City of St John's, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and the Newfoundland Provincial Art Bank. He has participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Art Mûr, and Bau-Xi Gallery and had solo exhibitions at de Montigny Contemporary, Carleton University Art Gallery, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Galerie Montcalm, and Christina Parker Gallery. Kaarsemaker lives in Victoria, B.C.
Developed through extended walks in remote landscapes, David Kaarsemaker's paintings bring distant vistas into dialogue with close observation, collapsing proximity and expanse, enclosure and horizon.
His paintings are made through successive layers of opaque and translucent applications, with paint added and removed at each stage, allowing light to emanate from within the image itself. Referencing both stained glass and LCD screens, the resulting glow hovers between natural and synthetic registers, situating perception at a threshold where the atmospheric becomes structural.
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