Edmonton Neighbourhood

Edmonton Neighbourhood was purchased by the Edmonton Arts Council as a gift for their capital campaign, and hangs in Edmonton City Hall. 

Thomson’s painting contains a verdant density of city quadrants of life: gardens, stores, cafes, lanes, trees, brownstones. The carefully observed familiar is deconstructed in invented landscapes that arrive out of an intuitive painting practice openly receptive to memory and dreams and awake to the observed world. Her paintings celebrate a creative life in cities designed for densification with walkable escapes into nature. 

The narrative of these compositions is manifested in a painted surface with an inherent contrast between expansive and congested areas and controlled and gestural mark-making. The action of painting ruminates with a notion of immediacy, a visceral feeling of inhabiting these painted spaces.