Viking Wings

Fall Equinox, 2021

St Joseph’s Artist Studios and Gallery

Chemainus, BC

This series was painted with water on the water, inspired by the nautical and Nordic; translucent layers of azure, cobalt and French ultramarine blue, to only name a few, will take you sailing. Sailing feels like flying and flying feels like freedom. With wings one can fly.

Skye Skagfeld’s most recent work, an expression of freedom in nature, is quite literally breaking through. Paintings on display at the annual Equinox exhibit, ‘Viking Wings’, feature exposed custom stretcher bars made of reclaimed wood. The vibrantly stained raw canvas shimmer with poetic sentiment to the organic; “those who live close to nature know that there is no waste in the universe though much appears so, all growth is painful, all progress fraught with distress…The sun has a way of setting, but it rises again. The rose we gather fades, but others bloom breathing a fragrance quite as sweet. Life is like that, too much sunshine kills vegetation. Laughter without tears, hardens the soul.”*

*Ref: Salverson, L. G. (1975). The Beloved Vegabond. Ross, M (116).The Viking Heart (pp 103-104)