| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Wesley Daniel Bagan credits the strength of his work to his practice of working on-site outdoors, and observing a scene carefully in order to address the challenges of composition, texture, light and shade. He is a visual artist whose work is held in public and private collections around Alberta.
Bagan’s paintings and drawings include series of works of northern Alberta’s Peace River valley and region and the Lac St. Anne area, where he focuses on capturing the beauty of the natural world and creating a record of the disappearing landscape. Many of his works include sunsets or sunrises, and he has also returned regularly to a series of drawings he has been adding to over a twenty-year period that depict the urban nocturne. In this series, he draws the empty alleyways and backyards of the city, and often incorporates elements of the poetical or theatrical. He exhibits actively at galleries and festivals in Alberta as well as at community venues such as libraries, restaurants and cafes.
Bagan was born in Terrace, British Columbia and moved to Alberta as a child. In 1978, he received a BFA from the University of Alberta.
Compiled 2014 |