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Brian Longfield
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I am an artist making paintings and things on treaty one territory in Winnipeg Mb.

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Polar Bear, working things out.
by Brian Longfield
acrylic on canvas
12”x12”
2025

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#acrylicpainting #canadianart #polarbear #polarbearart #bear #art #canadianartcollector #winnipegart #painting #manitobaartist #animalart #artsky #fineart
This is a polar bear that lives at the Assiniboine Park Zoo here in Winnipeg. She seems to be staring into the distance as she thinks through a problem. I’ll be showing it at Studio 6 for First Friday on November 7th. Polar Bear, working things out. by Brian Longfield acrylic on canvas 12”x12” 2025 https://brianlongfieldart.etsy.com/listing/4398734766 (Or link in bio) #acrylicpainting #canadianart #polarbear #polarbearart #bear #art #canadianartcollector #winnipegart #winnipegartists #firstfridayswinnipeg #painting #manitobaartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypaintings #like #instalike #november
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“Grey wolf practicing acceptance”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

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#painting #contemporyart #acrylicpainting #wolf #animalart #wildlifeart #canadianart #winnipegartist #artsky #kunst #visualart #fineart #paintings #wolves
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Dynamic Rabbit
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
2025

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#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
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Tree portrait
By Brian Longfiled
Acrylic on canvas
17”x26”
2025

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#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
October 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“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
September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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“Canada goose maintaining her resolve.”
by Brian Longfield
acrylic paint on canvas
12”x12”
2025

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#winnipegart #birdart #canadageese #canadagoose #artsky #painting #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #contemporarypainting #art #september #reelscanada #autumn
September 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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“Squirrel is a good listener”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
12”x12” (30cm x 30cm)
2025

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#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #squirrelart #squirrel #adhd #painting #art #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaartists #canadianart #paint
September 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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New painting!
“Amicable polar bear”
Acrylic painting on canvas
12”x12”
2025
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#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #painting #acrylicpainting #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #arctic #nature #bears #bearart #polarbearlove #contemporarypainting #art
August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Teardrop Mallard Duck
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
8.75” x 12”
2025

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#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifepainting #duck #mallard #animalart #winnipegart #manitobaartist #painting #abstractart
June 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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New painting!
Polar bear rising above it all
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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#artsky #acrylicpainting #wildlifeart #art #painting #contemporarypainting #winnipegart #manitobaart #polarbear #animalart #contemporaryart
June 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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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
May 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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*new painting*
Polar bear, rising to meet the day”
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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#polarbear #bear #polarbears #wildlifeart #animals #brownbear #animallovers #polarbearcub #polarbearplunge #nature #polarbearlove #acrylicpainting
May 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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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.
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April 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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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.
March 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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.
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March 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
March 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Mallard duck, voicing her opinion
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

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Mallard duck, voicing her opinion Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 24”x24” 2025 I initially rejected the source photo for this painting. I had been very excited by it when I’d taken it on a hike in Bird’s Hill in 2023 but when I got home I realized the reason she was so still for the length it took to get a good picture was she been pooping. flash forward to 2025 and I’m feeling very frustrated by current events and looking for an animal to paint and I come accross the pics of the pooping duck, and I realize that, yes, this is the perfect image for how I’m feeling right now. Perhaps this sassy duck perfectly sums up your feelings about the world as well. It does seem that most people miss the poop the first time they see the painting. So hanging it in your home, you can be certain that nobody will think you are secretly telling them to duck off. 😆
March 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Rabbit turning
by Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
16.25”x 20.25”
2023

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#acrylicpainting #contemporarypainting #wildlifeart #art #painting #rabbitartwork #bunnylove #bunnyart #rabbit #newpainting #bunny #winnipegart #manitoba #artsky
Rabbit turning by Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 16.25”x 20.25” 2023 . . This rabbit took what was probably an unnecessary fright during an encounter with my bicycle. I was lucky to have my camera on hand because I was riding home from taking photos in the Assiniboine forest.
February 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Confrontation
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
24”x24”
2019

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#hydroelectric #painting #contemporarypainting #wildlfeart #animalart #artistic #winnipegart #gallery #artlovers #paint #artsky #acrylicpainting #fineart #polarbear
An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of some real polar bears and a real telephone pole. Confrontation By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 24”x24” 2019
February 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Power display
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
24”x24”
2020

Available: https://buff.ly/3EqeqGC
#hydroelectric #painting #contemporarypainting #wildlfeart #animalart #artistic #winnipegart #gallery #artlovers #paint #artsky #wapiti #acrylicpainting #fineart #elk
An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original photo of a real elk and a real telephone pole. The elk photo is from Wall Street in Winnipeg and the Telephone pole is from the Assiniboine park zoo — or maybe the other way around… Power display By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 24”x24” 2020 I’m really happy with this one.
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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On Friday Feb 7 Thor Aitkenhead and I will be presenting paintings with ambient music at Studio 6!

It will be a *loopy* night! 🤣

#firstfridayswinnipeg #painting #artsky #artonbluesky #winnipegart #winnipegartists #manitobaart #painting #soundart #art #wildlifeart #artmusic
February 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Bison resting their eyes
By Brian Longfield
Acrylic on Canvas
12.375”x12.375”
2022

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#painting #artgallery #acrylicpaintings #bison #bisonart #contemporarypainting #artsky #artofbluesky #wildlifeart #fineart #acrylicpainting #buffalo
An original acrylic painting on canvas from an original source photo of a plains bison. This plains bison seems both emotionally and physically exhausted. It was kind of a hot day when I took the picture, so they were probably just soaking up the heat. Bison resting their eyes By Brian Longfield Acrylic on Canvas 12.375”x12.375” 2022
February 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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*new painting*
Hopeful garter snake
Brian Longfield
Acrylic on canvas
24”x24”
2025

Available: https://buff.ly/42CJcWJ


#wildlifeart #snake #acrylicpainting #acryliconcanvas #acrylics #yearofthesnake #acrylicpaint #art #contemporarypainting #artsky #winnipegart
i took the source photo for this picture on a hike to the snake pits at Narcisse. I felt like my Manitoba animals were missing the snakes so I made this one. Most of my paintings seem to either have hair or feathers so it was an interesting change to do scales for once. Hopeful garter snake Brian Longfield Acrylic on canvas 24”x24” 2025
February 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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So, it seems like it used to be fairly common for artists to paint over older work that hadn’t sold or they were no longer happy with. What do you think, artists of bluesky? Is that still done or do we see that as unprofessional now?

#artsky #artquestions #painting #oilpainting #acrylicpainting
January 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM