Biography

Keith Dalgleish spent over a decade living on a small, remote parcel of land in the Porcupine Hills of Southern Alberta, surrounded by wind, wild grasses, roaming animals, and migrating birds that became the central muse of his work. He sees both the act of painting and the finished piece as a kind of physical recording, documenting his personal experience with nature, especially its most intimate, innocent moments. His loose, colourful brushstrokes join and overlap in a style that bridges classical painting with contemporary abstraction, drawn to the moment where recognizable form begins to break down into something more elemental. For Dalgleish, that space between coming together and collapsing apart is where the real discoveries happen.

Dalgleish holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, with Honours and Distinction, from the Alberta University of the Arts in Calgary, along with a Performing Arts Diploma from MacEwan University and a Certificate in Commercial Sign Painting from the Northern Institute of Technology. He has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, along with the Illingworth Kerr and Grant MacEwan scholarships, and has taught at the Alberta University of the Arts.