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Provenance:

Private Collection, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Note:

Using modern colours — the neon greens, the galvanic raspberry — the artist electrifies an often-staid genre, asking the viewer to reconsider the familiar. Re-envisioned for the contemporary viewer, the artist’s work sits at the crossroads of the representational and the abstract, the real and the imagined.

Toronto-based writer, editor, and curator Bill Clarke, writing for Waddington’s about the artist’s work, notes that “Driscoll's subject matter follows that of the Group of Seven, an affinity recognized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in its 2017 survey of his work. However, Driscoll names Paterson Ewen as the Canadian artist who inspires him most; the artists share an interest in painting as a physical act, formal aspects of scale, and how different materials interact in the making of a painting.”[1]

Indeed, scale is of utmost importance in No One Can Hear Me, which at eight feet (nearly two and a half metres) in length utterly dwarfs the viewer, enveloping them in the artist’s dream-like vision of the wilderness.

[1] “Inventory Detail Page.” Waddingtons.ca, August 21, 2018. https://www.waddingtons.ca/auction/contemporary-art-oct-01-2020/gallery/lot/27/.