- City
- Ottawa
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 99
Brent McGillivray
This year’s collection includes Neon inspired art and minimalistic seascapes. My style looks like a clean modern painting or graphic illustration rather than a photograph-smooth gradients, simplified shapes and crisp lines create a peaceful, contemporary aesthetic. My work explores the tension between stillness and electricity. The ocean becomes a place of pause: expansive, calm, and meditative. In contrast, neon introduces a cinematic energy-fragments of urban life. Together, these elements create visual dialogue between nature and modernity. Rather than documenting places literally, my paintings aim to capture fleeting moods-the feeling of standing alone, the hum of the city or the nostalgia. Each piece invites viewers to slow down, linger and project their own memories into the space between what is seen and what is implied. Each piece uses colour, atmosphere, and negative space to evoke memory, solitude and movement.
WEBSITE: Times Gone By Studio.com
