This 48 by 36 inch acrylic BC abstract landscape painting was inspired by hiking among local wildflowers in Kitimat. Starting with a blue and white abstract painting I added fireweed plants reaching for the sky.

A close up photo of this acrylic flower painting reveals in detail this bright magenta and purple fireweed in front of blue sky. Flower clusters include those yet to open, flowers open for pollinating and closed flowers that have been pollinated.

Acrylic canvas wall art of wildflowers like fire-weed are a popular subject for artworks. As a BC landscape artist I try to have a different yet easily understood vision like this splattered blue and white action painting behind the realistic magenta fire-weed wildflower.

This BC landscape started as a quick vigorous abstract action painting with cyan blue and white acrylic paint. Action painting, also called gestural abstraction, is a painting style where the artist spontaneously splashes, throws and drips paint while also using dynamic sweeping brushstrokes with pure instinct working in the moment.

I wanted this Kitimat acrylic landscape painting to transport viewers into the life of BC plants, weeds and wildflowers that thrive in the summer season. Fireweed were given a foreground perspective that dwarfs the trees in the background, which implies that for a short time fireweed grow and hold space as giants in their own way.

Detailed realism brings this fireweed painting to life as the plant’s leaves are shown reaching for the heavens in this close up. Fireweed leaves are unique for having circular veins that don’t end at the leaf edges. These leaves can make Russian tea and were once one of the main trading teas of Europe.

Where shades of acrylic blue paint have been spattered and quickly brushed in a large, curved brush stroke adds a white curve of the sky in this BC landscape. I added western hemlock trees reaching past the top of the painting with detailed but loose wet brush strokes.

My painting studio here displays several 36 by 48 inch abstract action paintings that are about to evolve in their own unique directions. The light blue and white painting in the centre would grow into “Fireweed Heaven” where clouds were created with thrown white paint and swooping finger movements.