What simple shapes make up a landscape? While exploring our current exhibition, William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada, discover how British artist, William Townsend, uses repetition and a process of abstraction to simplify a landscape into its most essential components. Then choose your own landscape to essentialize using different collage techniques.
The Art Gallery of Alberta respectfully acknowledges that we are located in Treaty 6 Territory and Region 4 of the Metis Nation of Alberta. We respect this as the traditional and contemporary land of diverse Indigenous Peoples including the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Beaver Cree, Nitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Anishinaabe/Saulteaux/Ojibwe and Dene Peoples. We also acknowledge the many Indigenous, Inuit and Métis people who make Alberta their home today.