“Looking at the work of San Francisco artist Daniel Tousignant is like staring at a freeze frame of the best dream you’ve ever had, and the effect is a sudden wash of chest-clutching happiness. The beauty evoked by his landscape is so intense that it elevates them into the realm of abstraction, even though on the surface they’re utterly representative. There is some living depth, all the more fascination for its hiddenness, breathing behind every leafy branch. The artist says that trees reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. Maybe this vulnerability is what we see just under the surface of his canvasses, and what elicits such a visceral reaction to his work.”
Metropolitan Magazine, Barcelona Spain
“I love recalling collective memories of peaceful horizons, creating environments with open, expansive, clear horizons – an old tree, a vista of pastureland, and the distant billowing clouds of my lazy youth.”
Trees order the life on Earth, Daniel Tousignant compellingly declares that leaf-heavy branches in summer reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. From an orderly thicket of green symmetry, one sees balance and proportion not yielding to nature’s randomness. Next and contrarily, one observes boughs refusing to hide a sunset, while persuading the viewer to reach back for a concealed memory from a simple and effortless time. His paintings are layered; a kind of soft flowing across every inch of the surface. Tousignant captures a particular subject and moment in each piece.
What becomes intriguing is how Mr. Tousignant approaches the point where abstraction and representation meet and converge. Discovering Daniels’ clouds is like discovering the sky itself - that pleasant sensation when you look to the sky and see the cloudscape open up before you. Each of us views the sky in both unique and universal ways. All of us can look at the same sky, but each person’s preference affects his or her Appreciation of that sky, with his broadly painted sweeps of blues, ranging from cobalt, aqua marine, teal, cerulean, amber, eggshell and cream, the artists Scenes of Clouds offers an honest, straightforward sense of place.
Born into a family saturated in the arts, and raised on a dairy farm in Minnesota, Daniel started painting at the age of five. The unique spirit and energy of every scene he paints captures the subtleties of color and light. Daniel never ceases to bring delight and wonder to his body of work.
His Botanicals refract light so beautifully that they become a natural medium for the luminous way that he sees and portrays his subjects. The pure, pigmented colors are layered and blended on custom-made black lacquered wood panels.
Mr. Tousignant has attended the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Chicago Art Institute, Central School of Art in London, and the highly respected Royal Academy in London, England.
Metropolitan Magazine, Barcelona Spain
“I love recalling collective memories of peaceful horizons, creating environments with open, expansive, clear horizons – an old tree, a vista of pastureland, and the distant billowing clouds of my lazy youth.”
Trees order the life on Earth, Daniel Tousignant compellingly declares that leaf-heavy branches in summer reflect the beauty and vulnerability of all living things. From an orderly thicket of green symmetry, one sees balance and proportion not yielding to nature’s randomness. Next and contrarily, one observes boughs refusing to hide a sunset, while persuading the viewer to reach back for a concealed memory from a simple and effortless time. His paintings are layered; a kind of soft flowing across every inch of the surface. Tousignant captures a particular subject and moment in each piece.
What becomes intriguing is how Mr. Tousignant approaches the point where abstraction and representation meet and converge. Discovering Daniels’ clouds is like discovering the sky itself - that pleasant sensation when you look to the sky and see the cloudscape open up before you. Each of us views the sky in both unique and universal ways. All of us can look at the same sky, but each person’s preference affects his or her Appreciation of that sky, with his broadly painted sweeps of blues, ranging from cobalt, aqua marine, teal, cerulean, amber, eggshell and cream, the artists Scenes of Clouds offers an honest, straightforward sense of place.
Born into a family saturated in the arts, and raised on a dairy farm in Minnesota, Daniel started painting at the age of five. The unique spirit and energy of every scene he paints captures the subtleties of color and light. Daniel never ceases to bring delight and wonder to his body of work.
His Botanicals refract light so beautifully that they become a natural medium for the luminous way that he sees and portrays his subjects. The pure, pigmented colors are layered and blended on custom-made black lacquered wood panels.
Mr. Tousignant has attended the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Chicago Art Institute, Central School of Art in London, and the highly respected Royal Academy in London, England.
Daniel Tousignant