"Symphony in Yellow," 18" x 18"

Oil on Canvas.

This work was named after the title of an Oscar Wilde poem.

One of our collectors recently compared his work to the work of Mark Rothko for the skillful use of formal elements such as colour, balance, depth, and composition in his works. Another collector compared Jacques's works to the works of English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner for the expressive colorizations and imaginative landscapes.

Toronto-based abstract artist Jacques Descoteaux is inspired by the landscape, but his paintings go beyond the landscape. They are about memory, the atmosphere, and the impression left from the experience of being close to nature. The landscape that we thought we recognized has become more ambiguous, more mysterious, almost mystical.