This elegant, minimalist painting by Pat Service features a classic colour pairing—red and black. Renowned as a landscape artist, Service’s abstract series called, ‘The Black Velvet’ paintings are nature-inspired in form and colour. The velvety black background, a perfect contrast, is a nostalgic nod to familiar images many of us grew up with.

"You know those treasures we can still find in second-hand stores, the paintings painted on real velvet? They gave me the idea of starting with a black canvas, which is the opposite of how I have traditionally worked.” Pat Service

Service acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of B.C. and later studied art at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Service’s work is held in private collections in North America, Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong and in several museum collections around the world.