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I am an artist making paintings and things on treaty one territory in Winnipeg Mb. https://linktr.ee/brianlongfieldart

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And this one had sold!๐Ÿ”ด

13.11.2025 04:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And itโ€™s sold! ๐Ÿ”ด!

12.11.2025 07:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

08.11.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This is a polar bear that lives at the Assiniboine Park Zoo here in Winnipeg. She seems to be staring into the distance as she thinks through a problem. 

Iโ€™ll be showing it at Studio 6 for First Friday on November 7th. 

Polar Bear, working things out. 
by Brian Longfield
acrylic on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025 

https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4398734766
(Or link in bio)

#acrylicpainting #canadianart #polarbear #polarbearart #bear #art #canadianartcollector #winnipegart #winnipegartists #firstfridayswinnipeg #painting #manitobaartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypaintings #like #instalike #november

This is a polar bear that lives at the Assiniboine Park Zoo here in Winnipeg. She seems to be staring into the distance as she thinks through a problem. Iโ€™ll be showing it at Studio 6 for First Friday on November 7th. Polar Bear, working things out. by Brian Longfield acrylic on canvas 12โ€x12โ€ 2025 https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4398734766 (Or link in bio) #acrylicpainting #canadianart #polarbear #polarbearart #bear #art #canadianartcollector #winnipegart #winnipegartists #firstfridayswinnipeg #painting #manitobaartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypaintings #like #instalike #november

Polar Bear, working things out.
by Brian Longfield
acrylic on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4398...
(Or link in bio)

#acrylicpainting #canadianart #polarbear #polarbearart #bear #art #canadianartcollector #winnipegart #painting #manitobaartist #animalart #artsky #fineart

06.11.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œGrey wolf practicing acceptanceโ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025

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#painting #contemporyart #acrylicpainting #wolf #animalart #wildlifeart #canadianart #winnipegartist #artsky #kunst #visualart #fineart #paintings #wolves

01.11.2025 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great title! I like it when it conveys something everyone can relate to. ๐Ÿ™‚

31.10.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! Luckily Iโ€™m pretty intuitive with the brush. Iโ€™m sure Iโ€™d be intimidated if I had to think too much about it. I have struggled to accept the marks that come out in the past but itโ€™s a bit like hearing recordings of your voice, at some point you just accept that this is what your marks are

29.10.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dynamic Rabbit 
By Brian Longfield 
Acrylic on canvas 
2025

 An original acrylic painting of a rabbit with an abstract background 
 
I tried something interesting with the background here where instead of pallette knife painting the base layer, I hand painted an abstract image based on a macro photo of the upholstery of our couch. Why the couch? Idk. If I do more of this Iโ€™ll probably try to find a way to connect it conceptually to the animal portrait. This rabbit lives near me but has never been on the couch.  Iโ€™m sure theyโ€™re very friendly though. 

#painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #expressive #artofdrawingg #artpiece #art_dailydose #artaddict #artist_sharing #artworkforsale #artistic_discover #artisticportrait #artmake #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit #bunnyrabbits

Dynamic Rabbit By Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 2025 An original acrylic painting of a rabbit with an abstract background I tried something interesting with the background here where instead of pallette knife painting the base layer, I hand painted an abstract image based on a macro photo of the upholstery of our couch. Why the couch? Idk. If I do more of this Iโ€™ll probably try to find a way to connect it conceptually to the animal portrait. This rabbit lives near me but has never been on the couch. Iโ€™m sure theyโ€™re very friendly though. #painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #expressive #artofdrawingg #artpiece #art_dailydose #artaddict #artist_sharing #artworkforsale #artistic_discover #artisticportrait #artmake #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit #bunnyrabbits

Dynamic Rabbit
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393...

#painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #art #animalart #acrylicpainting #artsky #artisticportrait #canadianart #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit

29.10.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tree portrait
By Brian Longfiled
Acrylic on canvas 
17โ€x26โ€
2025

https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393603468 
(or follow link in bio) 

So I painted a tree.  I meant to do more with this and it ended up causing me a bit of uncertainty when I realized the painting was basically complete already. It was supposed to be a chance to explore the play between abstraction and representation in my work and it still does that, but not in the way I thought it would. Itโ€™s so much like looking at an abstract painting, but itโ€™s not one. Also Iโ€™m not sure it comes across digitally; it might be a job for Studio 6. 

Also I believe it is an Elm tree. 

#art #natureartworks #natureart #painting #acrylicpainting  #winnipegartist #winnipegartscene #winnipegart #elmtrees #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #autumn #october #canadianart #manitobaart

Tree portrait By Brian Longfiled Acrylic on canvas 17โ€x26โ€ 2025 https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393603468 (or follow link in bio) So I painted a tree. I meant to do more with this and it ended up causing me a bit of uncertainty when I realized the painting was basically complete already. It was supposed to be a chance to explore the play between abstraction and representation in my work and it still does that, but not in the way I thought it would. Itโ€™s so much like looking at an abstract painting, but itโ€™s not one. Also Iโ€™m not sure it comes across digitally; it might be a job for Studio 6. Also I believe it is an Elm tree. #art #natureartworks #natureart #painting #acrylicpainting #winnipegartist #winnipegartscene #winnipegart #elmtrees #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #autumn #october #canadianart #manitobaart

Tree portrait
By Brian Longfiled
Acrylic on canvas
17โ€x26โ€
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393...

#art #natureartworks #natureart #painting #acrylicpainting #winnipegartist #winnipegartscene #winnipegart #elmtrees #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #autumn #october #canadianart #artsky

26.10.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Etsy link for skeptical bison:

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4377...

28.09.2025 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve  had enough of whatever Buffalo chips   surround them. 
 

โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas 
12โ€x12โ€
2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them. โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€ by Brian Longfield acrylic paint on canvas 12โ€x12โ€ 2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve  had enough of whatever Buffalo chips   surround them. 
 

โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas 
12โ€x12โ€
2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them. โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€ by Brian Longfield acrylic paint on canvas 12โ€x12โ€ 2025

Post image An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve  had enough of whatever Buffalo chips   surround them. 
 

โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas 
12โ€x12โ€
2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like theyโ€™ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them. โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€ by Brian Longfield acrylic paint on canvas 12โ€x12โ€ 2025

โ€œSkeptical bisonโ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025

#contemporarypainting #bison #bisonart #painting #art #wildlifeart #manitoba #manitobaart #artwork #acrylicpainting #animalart #buffalo #bisonart #buffalo #winnipegart #canadianart #paintpaintpaint #artsky

28.09.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œCanada goose maintaining her resolve.โ€
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025

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#winnipegart #birdart #canadageese #canadagoose #artsky #painting #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #contemporarypainting #art #september #reelscanada #autumn

20.09.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This link gives the price and shipping info. brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4362...

10.09.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œSquirrel is a good listenerโ€
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
12โ€x12โ€ (30cm x 30cm)
2025

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#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #squirrelart #squirrel #adhd #painting #art #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaartists #canadianart #paint

02.09.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

29.08.2025 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New painting!
โ€œAmicable polar bearโ€
Acrylic painting on canvas
12โ€x12โ€
2025
brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4360...

#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #painting #acrylicpainting #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #arctic #nature #bears #bearart #polarbearlove #contemporarypainting #art

29.08.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Teardrop Mallard Duck
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
8.75โ€ x 12โ€
2025

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#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifepainting #duck #mallard #animalart #winnipegart #manitobaartist #painting #abstractart

13.06.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New painting!
Polar bear rising above it all
Acrylic on canvas
24โ€x24โ€
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4315...

#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #art #painting #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaart #polarbear #animalart #contemporaryart

07.06.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Looks like the images got left off the post somehowโ€ฆ

25.05.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m happy to announce that these two paintings have been purchased and entered into the permanent collection of the government of Manitoba. ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ #winnipegartist #wildlifeart #animalart #painting #manitobaartist #art #deerart #artsky #contemporarypainting #acrylicpainting #winnipegart #canadianart

24.05.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€ฆand itโ€™s sold! (I think thatโ€™s a record for me, online a couple of hours and sold!)

20.05.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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*new painting*
Polar bear, rising to meet the dayโ€
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24โ€x24โ€
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4308...

#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #animals #brownbear #animallovers #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #nature #polarbearlove #acrylicpainting

20.05.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Fermeture de Cre8eryย : une onde de choc dans la communautรฉ artistique Le studio a officiellement ouvert en 2007 et exposait jusquโ€™ร  200 ล“uvres par an.

I was interviewed par Radio-Canada about the Cre8ery on Monday. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215... #artgallery #winnipegart

16.04.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

26.03.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Four acrylic paintings from trail camera images installed in the Cre8ery gallery and studio. 

 Different genres of images, like mug shots and instagram selfies confer meaning to their subjects differently and in a way that derives from the images use or function, rather than its contents. In this way images taken with a motion sensitive trail camera confer a unique context on their subjects. Trail cameras, sometimes known as โ€œcamera trapsโ€ are used to study animal populations in wildlife ecology and also to track game for hunting. These images, easily recognisable by the strip of data along the bottom confer a fascinating layer of ambiguity on what could otherwise be conventional canadian landscape paintings.  Do they show research subjects or prey? Typically Canadian landscape painting is also a romanticized pursuit, to have examples of it derived from a genre of photography used for scientific data seems like an ironic way to question that reading.

Four acrylic paintings from trail camera images installed in the Cre8ery gallery and studio. Different genres of images, like mug shots and instagram selfies confer meaning to their subjects differently and in a way that derives from the images use or function, rather than its contents. In this way images taken with a motion sensitive trail camera confer a unique context on their subjects. Trail cameras, sometimes known as โ€œcamera trapsโ€ are used to study animal populations in wildlife ecology and also to track game for hunting. These images, easily recognisable by the strip of data along the bottom confer a fascinating layer of ambiguity on what could otherwise be conventional canadian landscape paintings. Do they show research subjects or prey? Typically Canadian landscape painting is also a romanticized pursuit, to have examples of it derived from a genre of photography used for scientific data seems like an ironic way to question that reading.

An installation view of my 4 trailcam paintings up at the Cre8ery right now. These paintings deal with the specificity of places and times that are usually unavailable to painting.

#acrylicpainting #painting #contemporarypaintings #art #trailcams #winnipegart #manitobaartists #canadianartists

26.03.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ottawa Ottawa

After 18years, Winnipegโ€™s Cre8ery studio and gallery is shutting down. Hereโ€™s Jordan Miller talking to CBC about it. Iโ€™ll have work in the final show.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#winnipegart #artgqllery #art

24.03.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Cre8ery is closing, but there is still time to see Mini-exhibition 3 in the auxiliary gallery! My work will be there from March 25-April 19th. Itโ€™s at 125 Adelaide St. (In Winnipeg.)
#winnipegart #artsky #wildlifeart #art #acrylicpainting #painting #canadianart #artgallery #animalart #gallery

24.03.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next tuesday I'll be showing some recent work as part of the last ever exhibition @cre8ery. This show begins on Tuesday March 26 at 11am and continues to April 19th.

#painting #artsky #artonbluesky #winnipegart #winnipegartists #manitobaart #painting #art #wildlifeart #polarbear #polarbearart

21.03.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mallard duck, voicing her opinion
Brian Longfield 
Acrylic on canvas 
24โ€x24โ€
2025

I initially rejected the source photo for this painting. I had been very excited by it when Iโ€™d taken it on a hike in Birdโ€™s Hill in 2023 but when I got home I realized the reason she was so still for the length it took to get a good picture was she been pooping. 

flash forward to 2025 and Iโ€™m feeling very frustrated by current events and looking for an animal to paint and I come accross the pics of the pooping duck, and I realize that, yes, this is the perfect image for how Iโ€™m feeling right now.  Perhaps this sassy duck perfectly sums up your feelings about the world as well. 

It does seem that most people miss the poop the first time they see the painting. So hanging it in your home, you can be certain that nobody will think you are secretly telling them to duck off. ๐Ÿ˜†

Mallard duck, voicing her opinion Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 24โ€x24โ€ 2025 I initially rejected the source photo for this painting. I had been very excited by it when Iโ€™d taken it on a hike in Birdโ€™s Hill in 2023 but when I got home I realized the reason she was so still for the length it took to get a good picture was she been pooping. flash forward to 2025 and Iโ€™m feeling very frustrated by current events and looking for an animal to paint and I come accross the pics of the pooping duck, and I realize that, yes, this is the perfect image for how Iโ€™m feeling right now. Perhaps this sassy duck perfectly sums up your feelings about the world as well. It does seem that most people miss the poop the first time they see the painting. So hanging it in your home, you can be certain that nobody will think you are secretly telling them to duck off. ๐Ÿ˜†

Mallard duck, voicing her opinion
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24โ€x24โ€
2025

Available: buff.ly/oo2ZObQ

#wildlifeart #mallardduck #acrylicpainting #fineart #acryliconcanvas #canadianart #mallard #contemporarypainting #contemporarypainting #art #duckart

03.03.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rabbit turning
by Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas 
16.25โ€x 20.25โ€ 
2023
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This rabbit took what was probably an unnecessary fright during an encounter with my bicycle. I was lucky to have my camera on hand because I was riding home from taking photos in the Assiniboine forest.

Rabbit turning by Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 16.25โ€x 20.25โ€ 2023 . . This rabbit took what was probably an unnecessary fright during an encounter with my bicycle. I was lucky to have my camera on hand because I was riding home from taking photos in the Assiniboine forest.

Rabbit turning
by Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
16.25โ€x 20.25โ€
2023

Avail: https://buff.ly/415mR31

#acrylicpainting #contemporarypainting #wildlifeart #art #painting #rabbitartwork #bunnylove #bunnyart #rabbit #newpainting #bunny #winnipegart #manitoba #artsky

09.02.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0