DuPont Canada Inc.
Madison Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Nova Scotia artist Tom Forrestall has long viewed the conventional rectangular painting format as an unnecessary creative limitation. Unusual for a realist artist, he has experimented with diverse shapes for supports in a way more commonly associated with abstract artists such as Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly. With his distinctive sense of composition, Forrestall used a trapezoid painting structure to energize his depiction of an orchard scene bathed in crisp Atlantic light. The painting contrasts a dynamic arrangement of horizontal patterns of light and shade with a thick veil of dense foliage which fills the picture’s entire upper half.
