Alison Jacques is delighted to announce representation of Canadian painter Sky Glabush (b.1970, Alert Bay, British Columbia; lives and works in rural southwestern Ontario). The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will take place in November 2026.

‘The materials themselves have to guide the painting to present an image or idea that didn’t come from me’, Sky Glabush observes, ‘There’s no recipe, there’s no formula, there’s no direction. I never know if and when a painting is going to feel real or if it’s going to feel alive’. Paintings emerge through an intuitive, materially driven process in which landscape becomes less a subject than a platform for experimentation. Glabush continues, ‘If the world around you can become subject matter or inspiration, then there’s no limit because it’s inexhaustible’.

Glabush paints intuitive interpretations and emotional responses to landscape, which he experiences as a platform for experimentation. Images are not predetermined but arrive through an ongoing exploration of material, memory and sensation, pushing the work beyond its source material and allowing forms to develop through their own internal logic. Although recurrent elements – trees, flowers, fields or shifting horizons – appear throughout Glabush’s work, the paintings resist fixed narratives, instead offering spaces of discovery that unfold gradually through colour, gesture and texture. The work evokes a sense of place, moving between familiarity and discovery. As he notes, ‘I hope visitors take away a feeling of being transported – not just to a physical place, but to a state of mind where they feel a connection to nature and the passage of time’.