Where Light Refuses | 48" x 60" Trees and community come together in

and community come together in everyday life on the Prairies

narrow mountain landscape viewed in vertical format

and texture

the children's joy and laughter fill the cold night air

Where Light Refuses | 48" x 60" Trees and community come together inAbout the Artwork Where Light Refuses is a 48" 60" oil painting on canvas by Richard Cole (b. 1968), presenting a wide Prairie landscape in which a canola field in full bloom stretches beneath a layered storm sky of cumulus cloud and dark mid level cloud cover. Cole positions the horizon low and unbroken across the lower third of the canvas. At this scale the sky commands the full weight of the composition. Large, volumetric cumulus formations in