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Wet Coasts and Dry Lands

Takao Tanabe

The epic landscape and coasts of British Columbia is the subject of the works of renowned painter, Takao Tanabe. Originated by the Kelowna Art Gallery, Takao Tanabe: Wet Coasts and Dry Lands surveys his work from 1984 to present. Tanabe’s reverence for nature and its affect on him as a painter is visible in the large scale of his works, some as large as 4 ½ by 10 feet. The works in Wet Coasts and Dry Lands explore not only the experiential phenomenon of light, air, water and land, but also naming places and localities.