Vancouver-based artist Cliff Kearns is passionate about diamonds.
In his latest series of paintings called “Immortal Diamond,” the artist is inspired to interpret, bend and push the gem’s characteristics. Shifting geometric shapes and brilliantly changing facets seem to explode off the canvas in his colorful, spirited explorations of nature’s most precious stone.
Kearns’ current series was inspired by Father Richard Rohr’s book, ‘’Immortal Diamond’, and the artist’s own latest contemplation on life. Rohr likens the diamond to our true self buried deep within us, molded under the intense pressure of our lives.
Cliff captures the essence of the Diamond by detailing smaller abstract areas of shape and colour within a bigger picture of structure and reality. Though ever changing and unp