John Anderson captures a gloriously wild garden, layering lush greens, tangled foliage and bursts of wildflowers in his signature energetic brushwork.

Painted en plein air in Ontario, this landscape belongs to Anderson’s later body of work, marking a shift from the colour field abstractions of the 1970s. Working directly in the field, he turned his attention to the Canadian landscape, capturing its wild foliage and shifting colour with loose, expressive brushwork.

Signed by the artist and newly framed.

About John Anderson
John Anderson (b. 1940) was born in India and emigrated to Canada in 1953. After earning his MFA from the University of Triton in 1964, he went on to teach art history at Mount Allison University, where his disciplined yet poetic approach to form influenced a generation of young artists. His work emerged alongside the rise of Canadian modernism, with exhibitions at Gallery Moos in Toronto and the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo during the 1970s. Anderson’s canvases reveal a masterful balance of intuition and intellect—his colour fields not just compositions, but portals into perception itself.