Jim Reid
About the Artist
Jim Reid’s landscape paintings highlight the complex relationship between culture and nature. His work is plein air, experiential and immersed in process. He honours the natural world’s brawn and mystery, its machinations that lie beyond our understanding – that are not even nameable*, yet as a member of modern society he is complicit in its destruction.
For most of his life, Reid has explored a particular tract of forest on the Niagara Escarpment, where his studio is now situated. The land was scarred by historic quarrying activity, but the forest regenerated. In recent decades this forest has continued to transform in the wake of climate change. Reid’s paintings in the series Forgotten Places (1983-present) form a constant thread that reveals his devotion to this landscape.
The Peel Plain is a heritage farming region south of the Escarpment. Distant horizons still exist here but these are threatened by advancing urban development. Reid’s Peel Plain series (2014-2020) both celebrates and eulogizes these open spaces.
The 1990’s series Terraforms was a merging of paint, collage and constructed elements which focussed on the ground itself. The sites of these works are dense with time and personal memory. Reid re-enacts their ancient stories and, through his choice of materials, acknowledges the prevalence of technology.
Terraforms toured Ontario public galleries as a solo show. Collections include Canada Council Art Bank, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Peel Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Peterborough, MacLaren Art Centre, Art Gallery of Guelph and Whyte Museum.
Forgotten Places
Jim Reid
Shoreline
2022
acrylic on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Jim Reid
Tangle
2022
acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jim Reid
12-9-20 Chaos and Light
2020
acrylic on canvas
76 x 116 inches
Jim Reid
20-10-20
2020
acrylic on canvas
60 x 40 inches
Jim Reid
28-4-20
2020
acrylic on paper
36 x 36 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
10-1-20
2020
acrylic on paper
36 x 36 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
20-5-20
2020
acrylic on paper
36 x 36 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
31-3-20
2020
acrylic on paper
36 x 36 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
28-6-20
2020
acrylic on paper
36 x 36 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
17-7-20
2020
watercolour
18 x 44 inches (framed)
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
12-3-20
2020
acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 inches
Jim Reid
6-4-19
2019
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
Jim Reid
14-6-19
2019
acrylic on plywood
18 x 18 inches
Jim Reid
28-3-19
2019
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Jim Reid
Forest-2-7-18
2018
acrylic on canvas
54 x 48 inches
Jim Reid
05-01-14
acrylic on fiberboard
20 x 20 inches
Jim Reid
Feral Orchard 1-11-13
2013
acrylic and collage on panel
72 x 105 inches
Jim Reid
Buckthorn Tree, September 20-26
2013
acrylic and collage on panel
75 x 77 inches
Jim Reid
Feral Orchard 14-5-13
2013
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Jim Reid
Forest 24-8-13
2013
acrylic on canvas
18 x 18 inches
Jim Reid
5-5-11, 2011
acrylic and collage on canvas
72 x 120 inches
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
Remnant of an Ancient Wilderness 20-9-11
2011
acrylic on wood panel
84 x 126 inches
Remnant of an Ancient Wildness (2011), Lonsdale Gallery “20 Years” anniversary exhibition
Jim Reid
11-10-11
2011
acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Jim Reid
Exquisite Entropy, 14-10-10
2010
acrylic on canvas
82 x 108 inches
Jim Reid
Forest 1-9-10
2010
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Jim Reid
Feral Orchard 7-9-10
2010
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Jim Reid
21-10-10
2010
acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Jim Reid
28-9-10
2010
acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Jim Reid
Feral 5-1-09
2009
acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
Feral 4-11-08
2008
acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
Feral 15-10-07
2007
acrylic on canvas
84 x 72 inches
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
Feral 20-10-03
2003
acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
The Peel Plain
Jim Reid
Peel Plain
2020
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
19 x 45 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Georgian Bay
2019
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
19 x 45 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Sydenham Lake 1
2018
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
42 x 62 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Sydenham Lake 2
2018
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
42 x 62 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 9-1-18
2018
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
42 x 62 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Glengarry County
2015
watercolour & pastel on paper
framed behind museum glass
26 x 46 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 13-6-18-1
2018
acrylic and pastel on paper
20 x 43 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 13-6-18-2
2018
acrylic and pastel on paper
20 x 43 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 29-11-17,
W from Mississauga Rd, S of King St
2017
watercolour and pastel on paper
13 x 39 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 24-10-17,
NW from Missauga Rd at Sandalwood Pkwy
2017
watercolour and pastel on paper
25 x 35 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 10-2-17
watercolour on paper
25 x 35 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 28-11-17-1
2017
acrylic and pastel on paper
35 x 55 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 7-6-16
#1 SE from Torbram, N. of Old School Rd.
2016
acrylic and pastel on Arches paper
31.5 x 41.5 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 3 – 9 June 2015, N. from Old School Rd., E of Winston Churchill Road
2016
acrylic and pastel on Arches paper
17 x 21 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 30-3-16-1
2016
acrylic, pastel and graphite on paper
25 x 35 inches
(Collection of Peel Art Gallery)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 30-3-16 #2
W. from Mississauga Rd., S. of Mayfield Rd.
2016
acrylic and pasted on Arches paper
31.5 x 41.5 inches (framed)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 15-1-16
2016
acrylic and pastel on paper
22.5 x 44 inches
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 3-6-16
N. W. from King St. at Sloan Road
2016
acrylic on canvas
72 x 108 inches
Peel Plain 3-July-16 (2016), Lonsdale Gallery “Field of Vision”
Jim Reid
Peel Plain 7-4-16
2016
acrylic on canvas
76 x 116 inches
(Private Collection)
Jim Reid
Peel Plain #1, 5-5-15: S. from Sloan Rd.
2014
acrylic and charcoal on paper mounted canvas
22.5 x 45 inches (framed)
Terraforms
Jim Reid
Terraform study
2000
acrylic and collage on plywood
30 x 30 inches
Jim Reid
Bones of the Earth
1998
acrylic and collage on fiberglass
84 x 168 inches
Jim Reid
Frozen Ground
1998
acrylic and collage on plywood
72 x 144 inches
Jim Reid
Radiant Earth study
1995
acrylic and collage on plywood
36″x60″
Jim Reid
Radiant Earth
1995
acrylic and collage on fiberglass
109 x 192 inches
Jim Reid
Ancient Silence
1993
acrylic and collage on plywood
96 x 192 inches
Ancient Silence (1993) Installation Hamilton Artist’s Inc
Jim Reid
Landscape
1991
96 x 192 inches
(Art Gallery of Hamilton)
Jim Reid
Mere Bleu Bog 2
1984
acrylic and collage on plywood
82 x 144 inches
(Canada Council Art Bank)
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