Liam, Grand Manan Island Ferry 2023
Liam and Ellie 2024
Liam Reynolds (b.2000) is a self-taught visionary artist and art curator based in Canada. He began his professional creative journey in 2020, with pastels, ink drawing, acrylics, poetry, and music. After tapping into his local art scene and creating a reputation for himself, Liam co-founded a limited-run Arts and Culture Magazine, uplifting local voices and helping to foster a sense of community within his city.
His work serves as commentary for the world, a witness to both the beautiful and the horrific. Advocating for environmental caution and social change. He often encircles contrasting themes such as individuality and interconnectedness, oppression and liberation, modernity and antiquity, beauty and fear... his goal is to hold space for alternative ideas and approaches to life, and to help us find a greater connection to each other.
The artist's work is in the homes of countless national and international collectors, patrons, and many respected establishments. Liam is always in the pursuit to continue his visual exploration, expand his perspective, and use his work to hold space for revolution, self-expression, and fun.
"Art has the potential to do so many things. Evoke so many emotions and ideas. For me, it’s a way of life. A way of seeing the world. My hope isn't to radically alter someone's life, but to just have fun with it, and sneak in, under the radar... to talk to you.
Living a life dedicated to art... it encourages people, let's them know it's okay to do the same. It doesn't take long for art to start changing you. I relate this to the saying: 'It only takes a few well-placed wedges to crack a great stone'.
My work very much is a reaction to people who spend their days telling you what to do. As artists we hear so many different opinions on how we should make art, what we should be thinking about, the narratives we should be speaking on, or the intentions we should be having. My practices often reacts against restrictive or legalistic ideology surrounding art. I want to speak up for beauty... fun, joy, but also conscious-living, and liberation. Sure sometimes it gets dark and hyper-contemplative, but I also want it to mostly be light. I must enjoy my process, otherwise I'm not sure what the point is. I figure the highest asperation anyone can have is enjoyment.
Not to mention... there's a lot of change and scary stuff going on in the world, and a lot of hurt people. I know art can heal. So ultimately, I hope it does that. I hope people leave my paintings feeling a sense of comfort, if not comfort, I'll take conviction.
So my goal is to continually be exploring my visual language and the world I am creating. To always be making bigger and better works, having bigger and better fun. Reching more people so I can be placing more wedges. To love whoever is looking at my painting... love them through the medium.
All that being said... I love to paint. Art is the best thing in the world... right next to food and medicine."
-Liam
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