Martin Pryce Fine Art

Martin Pryce Fine Art Bold contemporary paintings of the Canadian Rockies & West Coast. Calgary artist. Commissions open.

Most of my paintings start light and get darker. This one started black, and everything since has been fought back out o...
09/17/2026

Most of my paintings start light and get darker. This one started black, and everything since has been fought back out of it. The centre is a burst of yellow and chartreuse turning orange as it drops toward the bottom, with small magenta and violet notes buried in it, and every single shape is ringed in a cream outline drawn by hand — that white line is what stops the colour from sinking into the black. Out in the dark there are loose fragments still drifting away from the middle: browns, greys, a dull ochre, one shape closed off with a heavy black diamond near the top. It is painted in latex-acrylic and finished glossy enough that the black throws the light back at you when you walk past it. Painted in my Calgary studio. Prints of this one are quoted to size — the link goes to the painting and the quote form.

https://www.martinpryceartist.com/spaced-out-abstract?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spaced-out-abstract&utm_content=20260916-post

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New on the easel this year and now hanging at Art Country Canada in Canmore: Moraine Lake Elegance, 18 by 24. I stood th...
09/11/2026

New on the easel this year and now hanging at Art Country Canada in Canmore: Moraine Lake Elegance, 18 by 24. I stood the canvas upright because the lake wants height — the peaks stack over the water and the trees on both sides do the framing. The rock went on in flat angled slabs, cool grey with a band of pink where the late light hits the face; the water is turquoise cooling to deep blue, with pale streaks dragged across it for the wind. Latex-acrylic on canvas, brushes only, the weave left showing in places. The original is for sale and prints are available — details at the link.

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Cotton Candy Flowers is a loose bouquet of white, coral and magenta blooms against a pale turquoise ground, 30 × 22 in, ...
09/10/2026

Cotton Candy Flowers is a loose bouquet of white, coral and magenta blooms against a pale turquoise ground, 30 × 22 in, latex-acrylic on canvas. I built the white flowers first in thick, wet strokes, then went back in with a fine brush for the small dark marks that give each bloom its centre. The stems underneath are quick, loose lines rather than anything careful. The original is available, CA$1,980, painted in my Calgary studio.

https://www.martinpryceartist.com/store/p/cotton-candy-flowers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cotton-candy-flowers&utm_content=20260910-post

This one breaks from my usual format — a round table, not a canvas, but the same colour-blocking process I use in my pai...
09/09/2026

This one breaks from my usual format — a round table, not a canvas, but the same colour-blocking process I use in my paintings. I built the top from an abstracted cluster of blooms: crimson and rose-pink against cobalt blue, with teal leaf-shapes and gold accents holding the pattern together. The black linework went down last, to pull every petal edge into focus under the resin. Finished in acrylic on panel with a brushed-aluminum rim and base, under a high-gloss resin coat, so the surface reads more like glass than canvas. One of a kind, from my Calgary studio.

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Cool Glacier Water is one of my favourites from the Landscapes series — that clean, icy calm you only get where glacier ...
09/01/2026

Cool Glacier Water is one of my favourites from the Landscapes series — that clean, icy calm you only get where glacier melt runs straight over rock. I built the water in loaded strokes of turquoise and white, letting the brush stay loose right where it crosses the faceted stone.

This original has found its home, but commissions are open, and signed & numbered prints are on the way.

36" x 36", latex-acrylic on canvas, 2021. You can also find my work at Art Country Canada in Canmore.

https://www.martinpryceartist.com/cool-glacier-water?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cool-glacier-water&utm_content=20260831-post

Breezy Flowers came out of the garden at my own home in Calgary. I wanted the wind in it — the way the grasses and the b...
09/01/2026

Breezy Flowers came out of the garden at my own home in Calgary. I wanted the wind in it — the way the grasses and the blooms all lean the same way in the same moment.

Every petal is one loaded stroke of latex-acrylic, set down and left alone; where the brush ran dry you can still see the canvas weave through the colour. I painted it in 2019, missing summer.

36" x 36", latex-acrylic on canvas, flat finish. Original available. You can also find my work at Art Country Canada in Canmore.

https://www.martinpryceartist.com/store/p/breezy-flowers?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=breezy-flowers&utm_content=20260831-post

I went back to Moraine Lake — this time as an 18" x 24" portrait, looking straight down the water into the Valley of the...
08/21/2026

I went back to Moraine Lake — this time as an 18" x 24" portrait, looking straight down the water into the Valley of the Ten Peaks.

The water is laid in with single loaded strokes of latex-acrylic, and the driftwood along the shore is drawn back in over the top at the end.

18" x 24", latex-acrylic on canvas. Now at Art Country Canada in Canmore.

https://www.martinpryceartist.com/store/p/moraine-lake-mist?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=moraine-lake-mist&utm_content=20260820-post

Delightful is my take on the classic bouquet — painted the way I actually see one, as a splash of colour first and flowe...
08/18/2026

Delightful is my take on the classic bouquet — painted the way I actually see one, as a splash of colour first and flowers second.

It's painted on metal rather than canvas, and I kept the latex-acrylic thin enough to see through, so each bloom is a veil over the one behind it and the metal throws the light back up through the colour. The white dots and the few drawn stems were the last marks made. High-gloss resin over all of it.

48" x 48", Calgary, 2022. Original available.

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"Conviction" — I painted her in 2016 and she still stops me in the studio. Flame-red hair rising against a calm blue sky...
08/15/2026

"Conviction" — I painted her in 2016 and she still stops me in the studio. Flame-red hair rising against a calm blue sky, a yellow coat carrying all the energy of a life being lived. The hair went in with wide, loaded sweeps; the face I kept thin and smoothly blended, so the two ways of painting argue a little on one canvas. 60"x40", latex-acrylic on canvas. The original has sold — commissions are open if you'd like an original of your own. 🎨

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"Johnston Canyon" — one of the narrowest, loudest places in Banff, and one of my favourites to paint.I put a dark teal g...
08/13/2026

"Johnston Canyon" — one of the narrowest, loudest places in Banff, and one of my favourites to paint.

I put a dark teal ground down first, then dragged short angled strokes of pale blue and white across it and left them unblended — that broken edge is what makes whitewater read as moving instead of frozen. Painted tall and narrow so your eye falls the way the water does.

Latex-acrylic, straight and angled brushes. This original has found its home; commissions are open. 🎨

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