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Brian Longfield

Brian Longfield

@brianlongfield.bsky.social

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I am an artist making paintings and things on treaty one territory in Winnipeg Mb. https://linktr.ee/brianlongfieldart

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Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 3d

“Grey wolf practicing acceptance”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4396...

#painting #contemporyart #acrylicpainting #wolf #animalart #wildlifeart #canadianart #winnipegartist #artsky #kunst #visualart #fineart #paintings #wolves

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 4d

Great title! I like it when it conveys something everyone can relate to. 🙂

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! Luckily I’m pretty intuitive with the brush. I’m sure I’d be intimidated if I had to think too much about it. I have struggled to accept the marks that come out in the past but it’s a bit like hearing recordings of your voice, at some point you just accept that this is what your marks are

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 6d

Dynamic Rabbit
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393...

#painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #art #animalart #acrylicpainting #artsky #artisticportrait #canadianart #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit

Dynamic Rabbit
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
2025

An original acrylic painting of a rabbit with an abstract background

I tried something interesting with the background here where instead of pallette knife painting the base layer, I hand painted an abstract image based on a macro photo of the upholstery of our couch. Why the couch? Idk. If I do more of this I’ll probably try to find a way to connect it conceptually to the animal portrait. This rabbit lives near me but has never been on the couch. I’m sure they’re very friendly though.

#painting #bunny #rabbit #contemporary #expressive #artofdrawingg #artpiece #art_dailydose #artaddict #artist_sharing #artworkforsale #artistic_discover #artisticportrait #artmake #winnipegart #contemporarypainting #rabbitart #bunnylove #bunnyrabbit #bunnyrabbits

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 9d

Tree portrait
By Brian Longfiled
Acrylic on canvas
17”x26”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393...

#art #natureartworks #natureart #painting #acrylicpainting #winnipegartist #winnipegartscene #winnipegart #elmtrees #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #autumn #october #canadianart #artsky

Tree portrait
By Brian Longfiled
Acrylic on canvas
17”x26”
2025

https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4393603468
(or follow link in bio)

So I painted a tree. I meant to do more with this and it ended up causing me a bit of uncertainty when I realized the painting was basically complete already. It was supposed to be a chance to explore the play between abstraction and representation in my work and it still does that, but not in the way I thought it would. It’s so much like looking at an abstract painting, but it’s not one. Also I’m not sure it comes across digitally; it might be a job for Studio 6.

Also I believe it is an Elm tree.

#art #natureartworks #natureart #painting #acrylicpainting #winnipegartist #winnipegartscene #winnipegart #elmtrees #abstractart #abstractpaintingart #autumn #october #canadianart #manitobaart

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · 16d

New painting!
“Resilient polar bear.”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on thrifted bedsheet
16.25”x16.25”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4389...

#polarbear #acrylicpainting #painting #winnipegart #canadianart #contemporarypainting #wildlifeart #art #artwork #bear #bearart #arctic #paint

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 28

Etsy link for skeptical bison:

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4377...

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Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 28

“Skeptical bison”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

#contemporarypainting #bison #bisonart #painting #art #wildlifeart #manitoba #manitobaart #artwork #acrylicpainting #animalart #buffalo #bisonart #buffalo #winnipegart #canadianart #paintpaintpaint #artsky

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like they’ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them.

“Skeptical bison”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like they’ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them.

“Skeptical bison”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real woodlands bison. I only paint from photos I take myself. In each of these animal portraits I try to empathize with the emotional life of the subject. This one looks like they’ve had enough of whatever Buffalo chips surround them.

“Skeptical bison”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 20

“Canada goose maintaining her resolve.”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4373...

#winnipegart #birdart #canadageese #canadagoose #artsky #painting #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #contemporarypainting #art #september #reelscanada #autumn

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 10

This link gives the price and shipping info. brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4362...

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Squirrel is a good listener”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
12”x12” (30cm x 30cm)
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4362...

#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #squirrelart #squirrel #adhd #painting #art #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaartists #canadianart #paint

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you!

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Aug 29

New painting!
“Amicable polar bear”
Acrylic painting on canvas
12”x12”
2025
brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4360...

#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #painting #acrylicpainting #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #arctic #nature #bears #bearart #polarbearlove #contemporarypainting #art

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Jun 13

Teardrop Mallard Duck
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
8.75” x 12”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4320...

#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifepainting #duck #mallard #animalart #winnipegart #manitobaartist #painting #abstractart

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Jun 7

New painting!
Polar bear rising above it all
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4315...

#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #art #painting #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaart #polarbear #animalart #contemporaryart

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · May 25

Looks like the images got left off the post somehow…

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · May 24

I’m happy to announce that these two paintings have been purchased and entered into the permanent collection of the government of Manitoba. 🎉🎉 #winnipegartist #wildlifeart #animalart #painting #manitobaartist #art #deerart #artsky #contemporarypainting #acrylicpainting #winnipegart #canadianart

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · May 20

…and it’s sold! (I think that’s a record for me, online a couple of hours and sold!)

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · May 20

*new painting*
Polar bear, rising to meet the day”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4308...

#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #animals #brownbear #animallovers #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #nature #polarbearlove #acrylicpainting

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Apr 16

I was interviewed par Radio-Canada about the Cre8ery on Monday. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215... #artgallery #winnipegart

Fermeture de Cre8ery : une onde de choc dans la communauté artistique

Le studio a officiellement ouvert en 2007 et exposait jusqu’à 200 œuvres par an.

ici.radio-canada.ca

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thank you!

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Mar 26

An installation view of my 4 trailcam paintings up at the Cre8ery right now. These paintings deal with the specificity of places and times that are usually unavailable to painting.

#acrylicpainting #painting #contemporarypaintings #art #trailcams #winnipegart #manitobaartists #canadianartists

Four acrylic paintings from trail camera images installed in the Cre8ery gallery and studio.

Different genres of images, like mug shots and instagram selfies confer meaning to their subjects differently and in a way that derives from the images use or function, rather than its contents. In this way images taken with a motion sensitive trail camera confer a unique context on their subjects. Trail cameras, sometimes known as “camera traps” are used to study animal populations in wildlife ecology and also to track game for hunting. These images, easily recognisable by the strip of data along the bottom confer a fascinating layer of ambiguity on what could otherwise be conventional canadian landscape paintings. Do they show research subjects or prey? Typically Canadian landscape painting is also a romanticized pursuit, to have examples of it derived from a genre of photography used for scientific data seems like an ironic way to question that reading.

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Mar 24

After 18years, Winnipeg’s Cre8ery studio and gallery is shutting down. Here’s Jordan Miller talking to CBC about it. I’ll have work in the final show.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

#winnipegart #artgqllery #art

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Mar 24

The Cre8ery is closing, but there is still time to see Mini-exhibition 3 in the auxiliary gallery! My work will be there from March 25-April 19th. It’s at 125 Adelaide St. (In Winnipeg.)
#winnipegart #artsky #wildlifeart #art #acrylicpainting #painting #canadianart #artgallery #animalart #gallery

Brian Longfield @brianlongfield.bsky.social · Mar 21

Next tuesday I'll be showing some recent work as part of the last ever exhibition @cre8ery. This show begins on Tuesday March 26 at 11am and continues to April 19th.

#painting #artsky #artonbluesky #winnipegart #winnipegartists #manitobaart #painting #art #wildlifeart #polarbear #polarbearart