About our Art collection
The Art Collection of Alberta Botanic Garden has been assembled over the past two decades and includes more than 50 oil paintings and sculptures from many of the finest artists around the world. The focus is mainly on realism and hyperrealism artworks along with Life Size Master Copies from the old masters of the Dutch Golden Age and Neoclassicism.
The Art collection of Alberta Botanic Garden has extraordinary depth and breadth in paintings specifically selected from local and worldwide artists, ranging from significant paintings of portraiture to figurative paintings.
This journey of collecting contemporary art, Life Size Master copies, Dutch art, Neoclassicism, and classical art explains how the Collection took shape. The Art Collection of Alberta Botanic Garden is still continuing its search to discover more amazing paintings around the world to help out artists and share their creations with the audience, making the collection filled with the best quality paintings inspiring artists and art lovers alike.
The Idea!
Sharing our vision with you.
We want people to be able to see the finest paintings from the old master right in the province of Alberta, Canada.
Not only are these just "master copies" but seeing through our young artist's vision, she has painted them in "Lifesize". So it feels as if we are meeting the person in the painting in real life.
Having this amazing feeling and experience that you can't get anywhere else in the world.
She wants to share her inspiration and the Artists she loves and adores who are very close to her heart and have given her the spark, light, enlightenment ,and wisdom to her own paintings and masterpieces.
Hand selected and curated
Most painting are from the Golden Dutch Age and Neoclassism, Hand selected and painting by the artist herself from Vermeer, Rembrandt, Ingres, Jan Lieven, Jack Louis David, Nichola Poussin, Delacroix.
What's the purpose of painting "Master Copies"?
To nurture and heal the soul. To refill her cup, to nurture her creativity. That's the very reason why Victoria paints master copies. Something about ancient and old master paintings. They have this sort of positive energy that I can feel while learning from these great masters of ancient times. They've left many wisdom and secrets behind. But it's our life task and purpose to learn, paint, feel and breath it into our own daily life.
I want to pass down this method to future artists who always find that they always feel empty. Carved out and nothing else left in them.
You must take time to heal, to nurture the soul in order to balance out and meaning into life.
