'Second Thoughts' by Canadian Artist PETER AITKENS. Acrylic on Linen. 27.5 in x 36.5 in. A bit about the artist: "Peter Aitkens is an artist based in Montreal, Quebec and in the Adirondacks in Upstate New York. He has been a professional artist since 1974 and has shown in galleries in Montreal, Toronto, the United States, and Central and South America and has had more than 21 one-man shows. Acrylic paint on canvas is the main medium and support. Lately he has been investigating Birch bark as a support surface, using the little brown parallel lines (lenticels) as starting marks for ripples in water and the grain of wood. He stretches his own canvases using his own stretchers and frames his finished paintings with frames of his own design. His subjects are figures such as bathers and canoeists, city scenes, and the country side of the Adirondacks. He is quite taken with White Birch trees, sparkling cool water, and figures enjoying nature. Light is his obsession, how it flows through space, sparkles on water, and defines form. Light creates its own drama and narrative. In his paintings the description and effects of light are achieved by the juxtaposition of colours. But beyond the effects of light in paint his deepest desire is to express the invisible, like wind, emotions, the ecstatic, a sense of wonder. Ultimately his work is a meditation on life through thankfulness towards the source of all being. "

In great overall condition. Some minor chips on the frame.