"Angel Glacier Recollection"
oil on canvas
16" x 12"

"Following the River of Golden Dreams"
oil on canvas
60" x 48"

"Glorious Mt. Edith Cavell"
oil on canvas
36" x 24"

'Wild About Fireweed'
oil on canvas
47" x 35.5"

'Larch Reflections'
oil on canvas
30" x 40"

'Into the Forest'
oil on canvas
16" x 12"

'Icefield'
oil on canvas
12" x 16"

'Meltdown 2'
oil on panel
11" x 11"

'Converge'
oil on canvas
24" x 48"

'Brandywine Falls: Landing Place of Thunderbird'
oil on canvas
24" x 12"

'Blue Day in Whistler'
oil on canvas
16" x 12"

'Tarn at Mt. Edith Cavell' - SOLD
oil on canvas
12" x 16"

'Along the Athabasca' - SOLD
oil on canvas
12" x 24"

'Monet Dreaming in Whistler' - SOLD
Oil on Canvas
48" x 24"

Destanne Norris

Destanne Norris is a professional artist who received her BFA (Honours) degree in painting and drawing from the University of Victoria in 1987. After graduating from the University of Victoria, Destanne moved to Jasper, Alberta where she could be surrounded by wilderness. She participated in many workshops, Artist in Residence programs and Visiting Artist programs; and became a juried member of the Alberta Society of Artists and Arts Jasper.

Her great love of nature and the outdoors has been the inspiration for her work and Jasper National Park provided her with a spectacular array of subject matter. Her paintings are impressionistic with a bold use of colour; they are accomplished and assured, exuding a great sense of connection to the landscape.

Destanne left the Rocky Mountains to pursue post-graduate studies in Art and Environment at the University of Tasmania in Australia - Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies is well integrated into the Art Department. In 2009 she was awarded the Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Tasmania, yet it was the call of ‘home’ that brought her back to live in the Okanagan in Canada.

Her unending passion for natural environments and the elements, especially mountains and water, continue to be the source of Destanne’s artistic inspiration. Landscape and place, metaphor and symbol, embodiment and Romanticism are her research interests. While an overarching theme in her landscape painting is the mirroring of ‘inscape’ and ‘landscape’.

Destanne’s paintings have been exhibited internationally and nationally in Public, University and Artist-Run Galleries. She is thrilled to re-establish her representation with Mountain Galleries upon return from her travels and education. Her work can be found in numerous private collections around the world and in corporate collections, as well as being in the permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Penticton Art Gallery.

Solo Painting Exhibitions

2011   
Selected Works from the Embodied Pool Series, Kalamalka Vertigo, Okanagan Colllege Kalamalka Campus, Vernon, BC

2008   
Selected Paintings and Projected Images – painted pools: a lensinto subjectivity, fina Gallery, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC

2005   
painted pools: a lens into subjectivity, MFA Graduation Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia

2004
The Feeling of What Happens, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia

2002   
Recent Paintings, Mountain Galleries, Jasper, AB

2001   
The Rockies Larger than Life, Mountain Galleries, Jasper, AB

2000   
New Landscape Paintings, Mountain Galleries, Jasper, AB

2000   
Alberta Passages, Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, AB

1996   
Leah’s Gift, Sunrise Gallery, Jasper, AB

Group Painting Exhibitions

2011   
Ebb & Flow ~ Equilibrium, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC

2010   
Marking Identity, Kelowna Art Gallery Members’ Exhibition, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2010   
10: The Tenth Annual North Okanagan Artists Alternative’s Open Members’ Exhibition, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC

2010   
Autumn Art Expo, VISAC Art Gallery, Trail, BC

2009   
ROW: Reflections on water, Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History, Nelson, BC

2007
Green, Juried Members’ Exhibition, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC

2006   
Nucleus, Gallery Vertigo, Vernon, BC

2004   
CAST Annual Members’ Exhibition, Hobart, Australia

2004   
Propinquity and Distance, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Australia

2002   
Converging Landscapes, Leighton Foundation, Calgary, AB

2001   
Annual Members’ Exhibition, SA Public Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC

2000   
In the Artist’s Eye: Mount Alberta, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB

1999   
Reflections of Jasper National Park, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB

1998   
Annual Members’ Exhibition, SA Public Art Gallery, Salmon Arm, BC

1995   
Wildlife, Landscapes and Wildflowers, Jasper Museum, Jasper, AB

Travelling Exhibition

2001-2003     
Blooming Prairie, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Juried Exhibition from the Alberta Society of Artists
Produced by the Edmonton Art Gallery

Paintings in Collections

Acrobat Results Marketing Inc.
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Alpine Village
Bennett Jones LLP
Canadian Farm Credit Corporation
Consulate General, Japan
Finning Canada
Jasper Inn
Parks Canada, Jasper National Park
Penticton Art Gallery
Sherritt Greene LLP
Simpson’s Num-Ti-Lodge
Whistler Hotel
Private Collections in Canada, USA, Asia, Australia, Europe