BIOGRAPHY:
Vancouver based visual artist, Ted Seeberg, is known for his bold and energetic abstracted landscapes. His artistic journey, influenced by the talent of his father and grandmother, began at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design before he transitioned into architecture. Seeberg’s professional career as a residential designer has been a great joy to him in the early independence of having his own design company plus the opportunity to meet diverse and interesting people. He is now enjoying a new chapter of self motivated personal expression that continues where art school left off.
Seeberg’s artistic drive and fascination with nature has consistently led him to explore the wilderness for his inspiration, his painting allowing him to delve into the complex beauty of the Canadian landscape. Creating a dialogue with his surroundings, Seeberg’s use of saturated colour alongside his abstracted forms lend a delicate balance to his canvases. Deeply resonating with Jack Shadbolt’s belief in how a compelling painting should evoke a visceral response, Seeberg begins his works with an acknowledgement of the landscape and moves from there into colour, texture, composition, and extrapolation. Regardless of the subject, the artist wants to explore emotional and aesthetic values rather than a reality based on the intellect.
Artist's Statement
Preferring to express myself in a figurative-abstract hybrid, I am drawn to ambiguous images. Following the words of B.C. artist Jack Shadbolt, who noted a good painting "should hit you in the eyeballs," I am uninterested in recreating pretty, scenic views, but in creating an alternative with impact. My goal is to start with an acknowledgement of the landscape and move from there into colour, texture, composition, and extrapolation. Regardless of the subject, I want to create an experience that will challenge aesthetic values rather than the intellect. Visual art as visual art.
Jack Shadbolt is quite simply my hero. His work is so strong that I have not yet bought a book about his art to avoid being artistically overwhelmed. I also hold many other painter's work in high esteem. This includes the distorted personal imagery of Phillip Guston, Chaim Soutine and Francis Bacon; the unflinching truthful/ugliness of Egon Schiele and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; the use of paint by Balthus, Willem de Kooning and Marc Chagall; the playfulness of David Hockney and Paul Klee; the patient observation of E.J.Hughes; and finally the ability of Georgia O'Keeffe to create a religious icon out of the simplest natural element.






















