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Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to present Rick Leong’s solo exhibition Carmanah. In these critical times of climate awareness, Leong’s decades long investment in landscape painting feels particularly pertinent. Focused on two new bodies of work, this exhibition features vast ocean scenes and immersive landscape paintings that are directly inspired by the Carmanah old growth forest located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in Ditidaht First Nation ancestral territory.

Paintings featuring oceanscapes with low horizon lines, paired with thick forest scenes, convey the density of the forest …