Craig Mainprize is a visual artist, curator, and musician who lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario. Born in Orillia in 1983, he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa and a diploma in Museum Studies from Algonquin College.Mainprize paints to celebrate the energy, rhythm, and spirit of the Canadian landscape. Bursting with bold colours, strong lines, and playful forms, his work transforms familiar scenery into vibrant visual experiences that invite joy, curiosity, and connection. He awakens a sense of wonder — encouraging viewers to see not just what a place looks like, but how it feels.Inspired by the wild beauty of Georgian Bay, Algonquin Park, and the places in between, Mainprize reimagines nature through a lens of reverence and response. Each piece is a celebration — of light dancing on water, of wind rushing through trees, of the quiet power in a horizon line. His style blends expressionism, impressionism, and primitivism into landscapes that feel both timeless and alive, like stained glass mosaics of the natural world.