Brian Longfield

Teardrop Mallard Duck
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
8.75” x 12”
2025

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New painting!
Polar bear rising above it all
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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Looks like the images got left off the post somehow…

I’m happy to announce that these two paintings have been purchased and entered into the permanent collection of the government of Manitoba. 🎉🎉 #winnipegartist #wildlifeart #animalart #painting #manitobaartist #art #deerart #artsky #contemporarypainting #acrylicpainting #winnipegart #canadianart

…and it’s sold! (I think that’s a record for me, online a couple of hours and sold!)

*new painting*
Polar bear, rising to meet the day”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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

Fermeture de Cre8ery : une onde de choc dans la communauté artistique Le studio a officiellement ouvert en 2007 et exposait jusqu’à 200 œuvres par an.

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

Thank you!

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 “camera traps” 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.

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After 18years, Winnipeg’s Cre8ery studio and gallery is shutting down. Here’s Jordan Miller talking to CBC about it. I’ll have work in the final show.
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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. It’s at 125 Adelaide St. (In Winnipeg.)
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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.

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Mallard duck, voicing her opinion Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 24”x24” 2025 I initially rejected the source photo for this painting. I had been very excited by it when I’d taken it on a hike in Bird’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 I’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 I’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. 😆

Mallard duck, voicing her opinion
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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

Rabbit turning by Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 16.25”x 20.25” 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
16.25”x 20.25”
2023

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

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of some real polar bears and a real telephone pole. Confrontation By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 24”x24” 2019

Confrontation
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
24”x24”
2019

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An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real elk and a real telephone pole. The elk photo is from Wall Street in Winnipeg and the Telephone pole is from the Assiniboine park zoo — or maybe the other way around… Power display By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 24”x24” 2020 I’m really happy with this one.

Power display
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
24”x24”
2020

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On Friday Feb 7 Thor Aitkenhead and I will be presenting paintings with ambient music at Studio 6!


It will be a *loopy* night! 🤣

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An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original source photo of a plains bison. This plains bison seems both emotionally and physically exhausted. It was kind of a hot day when I took the picture, so they were probably just soaking up the heat. Bison resting their eyes By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 12.375”x12.375” 2022

Bison resting their eyes
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
12.375”x12.375”
2022

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i took the source photo for this picture on a hike to the snake pits at Narcisse. I felt like my Manitoba animals were missing the snakes so I made this one. Most of my paintings seem to either have hair or feathers so it was an interesting change to do scales for once. Hopeful garter snake Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 24”x24” 2025

*new painting*
Hopeful garter snake
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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#wildlifeart #snake #acrylicpainting #acryliconcanvas #acrylics #yearofthesnake #acrylicpaint #art #contemporarypainting #artsky #winnipegart

That helps! I used to use oil pastels for a similar reason (mostly speed, and direct contact.)

Do you find that over time what works for you shifts? Like you’re happy with it at some point but then sometime down the road, you just don’t see what you saw anymore?

Do you rework them such that some portion of the original layer comes through?

So do you paint something completely new or just rework the original piece?

So, it seems like it used to be fairly common for artists to paint over older work that hadn’t sold or they were no longer happy with. What do you think, artists of bluesky? Is that still done or do we see that as unprofessional now?

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An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real grey wolf This painting is from a photo I took of a wolf at the Assiniboine Park Zoo here in Winnipeg. Wolf in the grass By Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 9”x12.5” 2022

Wolf in the grass
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
9”x12.5”
2022

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An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real chicken. This is taken from a photo I took of a chicken at the Kismet Creek Farm. Chicken Portrait no. 2 By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 24”x24” 2020

Chicken Portrait no. 2
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
24”x24”
2020

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#animalart #chickenart #acrylicpainting #fineart #acryliconcanvas #canadianart #fineart #chicken #contemporarypainting #art #birdart #artsky #winnipegart

😃 You can see how that is done here in this video:

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I just start by spreading paint around. 🤣

Glaring Pelican Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 15”x 22” 2022 . . I continue to be compelled by the way the pelican’s beak resists “facialization.” I think it has to do with the way the cheeks connect to the lower jaw instead of the upper like you’d expect.

Glaring Pelican
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
15”x 22”
2022

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#wildlifeart #pelican #acrylicpainting #fineart #acryliconcanvas #canadianart #acrylicpaint #contemporarypainting #artsky #artonbluesky #painter #art #visualart

Oh, it’s not a goose to be trifled with!