Ken Dalgarno is a Canadian artist and photographer from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Saskatchewan. Dalgarno has exhibited in group and solo shows across Western Canada, the Dakota’s, Montana and Minnesota. His paintings are in private and public collections across Canada, the United States, South Africa and Italy. Dalgarno has received support for his work both from the Canada Council of the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. “The Crooked Trees of Alticane” recently finished a successful nine venue tour which included a half page profile in the Edmonton Journal.
“What first struck me was the brilliance of Ken Dalgarno's palette, the raw, visceral wealth of it. This is the sort of chromatic bang that you don't get in Nature. I'll tell you right away, if you didn't know it already: Saskatchewan skies, whether at dawn, midday or dusk, are not like Dalgarno paints them. But what his brush accurately captures is how they feel. That is the great appeal of these paintings: they are the best of both worlds, charged with the radiance of abstraction but also conveying the content of figuration. They are intensely physical paintings, nearly shocking in their vividness, yet their tone is quietly elegiac.
My immediate thought was, I want to live with these. My great luck is that I now have two hanging on my walls, lighting up my house.”
My immediate thought was, I want to live with these. My great luck is that I now have two hanging on my walls, lighting up my house.”
Yann Martel
ManBooker Prize winner for “Life of Pi”
