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“Artist Val Nelson paints realistic scenes whose forms – chairs, trees, tables – are almost hidden by her layered gobs of paint, like our gathering of information as we gaze quickly over objects. Life in the fast lane. No time to really notice. But if one looks longer, patterns emerge; and therein lies a message. Look. Longer. ” Montreal Gazette online, July 2012

Going for a Ride in the Age of Auto, Kevin Griffen, Nov 25, 2010 Vancouver Sun

“…she crafts the kind of post-photographic painting that does its best to make an eye dulled by electronic media vibrate anew. I am happy to say she is largely successful.”
Terence Dick, 2009, Akimbo

Artists Expore Fresh Ideas in Landscape, Gilbert Bouchard, July 2, 2007, Edmonton Journal