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 ever so slightly change you.
Simply living a life dedicated to art helps to encourage people, and let them know it's okay to do the same. 'It only takes a few well-placed wedges to crack a great stone'. It doesn't take long for art to start changing you.
Being someone who encourages contemplation without harsh judgments, being someone who is creating and holding space for self-expression, is immeasurably important. Not because one studio visit, or one conversation, will change someone's life----although it probably will-----but because over a lifetime, I will have encouraged thousands and thousands of people, ever so slightly, into a better direction. A direction that is aligned with their deepest convictions, that is aligned with empathy and expression. Art is the byproduct of introspection, curiosity, and empathy. It let's us feel seen...tells us that it's okay to be weird.
So my goal is to continually be exploring my visual language and the world I am creating, so I can make bigger and better works, so I can reach more people and place more wedges. Love them ever so slightly... There's a lot of change going on in the world right now, 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, conviction works too.
That's my working thesis. To be a continuous source and presence where people can go to be encouraged, free to be themselves.
All that being said... I love to paint. Art is the best thing in the world... beside food and medicine."
-Liam
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