Expressive Colour Work Rooted in Place
Angela Seear is a Vancouver-based painter who works primarily in acrylic on wood panel. Her prints at Kuriosis capture that painterly quality — layered colour, soft edges, and a warmth that feels personal rather than decorative. Pieces like Westcoast and October Mist carry the atmosphere of specific landscapes without being literal. Desert Light and Bohemian Sky push further into abstraction, using colour relationships to evoke mood rather than geography. What ties the collection together is a consistent emotional register: calm, reflective, grounded.
Her background in graphic design and fashion shows in her compositional instincts — she knows how to balance colour weight across a surface. But the work itself resists anything too controlled. The layered opacities, the visible brushwork, the soft transitions between warm and cool tones — these are paintings that breathe. They reward proximity and change character with different light conditions throughout the day. A Seear print in morning light reads differently than it does under evening warmth, and that responsiveness is part of the appeal.
Print and Canvas Options
Angela Seear's work is available on both 225g matte fine art paper and 400g cotton canvas. The paper prints preserve the subtle colour gradations and layered washes with clarity — the matte surface captures the soft tonal shifts that define her palette without adding unwanted sheen. Paper sizes range from A3 to 50x70 cm, 70x100 cm, and A0, well suited for framing in oak, black, or walnut brown. Oak frames draw out the warmth already present in her colour choices, while black provides a contemporary edge.
Canvas prints on stretcher bars add physical texture that complements her painterly approach — the cotton weave gives depth to her layered colour fields and creates a surface quality closer to the original acrylic paintings. Canvas sizes run 30x40 cm, 50x70 cm, and 70x100 cm, with optional floating frames for a gallery finish. The floating frame adds a 5mm shadow gap that lifts the canvas off the wall, giving each piece the presence it deserves.
For related work, explore our landscape collection or browse the wider abstract prints selection. Her pieces also sit well alongside work in the contemporary artists collection.
Produced in Berlin
All prints are produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks rated for 100+ years.