Rob gonsalves paintings for sale

1959 - 2017

Rob Gonsalves made paintings that spoke to the joyful and wonderous imagination of children and to us adults who can still find that inner child willing to swing so high that our shoes touch the sky.

Born in Toronto, Rob Gonsalves graduated from the Architecture program at Ryerson University and worked in the field for a few years before embarking on internationally acclaimed painting career.

His architectural studies gave him the skill sets to manipulate points of view, perspective and scale in 2-D and enabled him to bend and play with reality. His influences include Magritte, Remedios Varo, Kurerlek and the ProgRock album covers of his teens.

Rob Gonsalves drew from his own personal narrative. He was inspired by Toronto and New York architecture, the night sky and the rugged, Eastern Ontario landscape of rock, trees and lakes where he eventually settled in 2001.

When sky becomes the Earth, when a waterfall turns into a dancing woman, when your swing takes you higher than any treetops, then you’ll know that you’ve imagined a world made out of pure imagination. RobGonsalves is a Canadian artist who uses delicate optical illusion to transport his viewers far away, all the way into the world of magical realism. And that world is boundless and beautiful, with endless possibilities. The artist creates breathtaking visual explorations of imagination that encourage both children and adults to dare and think past the boundaries of everyday life and see what lies beyond the horizon.

The Term Magic Realism Best Suits the Visual Language of Rob Gonsalves

Inspired by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and M. C. Escher, Gonsalves demonstrates his masterful technique and the understanding of perspective. His art is often equated with surrealism, but that isn’t completely true. Even though his pieces possess some of the features that can be found in surrealism, the thought behind it somewhat differs. Th

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