Sabine Liva paints her world in sure strokes of poetry.  Steps from her studio, the Toronto
waterfront goes about a busy life of boats and swans and spectacular skies.  Sabine's subtly confident brush hovers and dips, capturing for us the drifting sheen of morning mists, the lonely echoes of shoreline gulls, the glimmer of pebbles washed perfectly smooth.

These grand portraits of lake and sky whisper primal secrets from the walls.  The colours are warmly organic; mute masses of cloud and stone, lilting tints of wind and starlight.  Silhouettes of boats and doves - the shadowed shapes of simple things - appear, hover and fade away with the whims and dreams of tides.  Early fog, lace veils, spray and stone, wood and wave are here in balanced measures, simply placed.

These are joyful paintings, an art of love for the landscape that inspired them.  In this powerful new collection of work, Sabine shows us once again the undeniable truth of the words that guide her.
Truly,
the world is beautiful.

Sean Patenaude