Those familiar with the history of landscape painting may see in Toronto-based Steve Driscoll’s work links to North American and European Transcendentalism. This 19th Century movement consisted of philosophers, poets and painters – such as Kant, Thoreau, the American Hudson River School and, later, Canada’s Group of Seven, who saw an inherent goodness in humankind and a transformative spirituality in nature. Although Driscoll draws inspiration from this long tradition of landscape painting, his work is thoroughly contemporary. Using a unique combination of materials – oil paints embedded in urethane – Driscoll’s paintings translate the magic and wonder of the natural world for a 21st Century audience.  

Steve Driscoll has exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada, including a significant survey of work at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2017. This year, he has mounted his third public exhibition at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, and will soon unveil a major public art installation for CIBC Square tower in downtown Toronto. His artwork is included in such important permanent collections as the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, TD Bank, Scotiabank, BMO, Mount Sinai Hospital, Nordstrom, and The Four Seasons. He currently lives and works in Toronto.