Mike Fantuz is a Canadian artist known for his palette knife paintings depicting the urban landscape in the American Realism style. Using inherited palette knives and thick application of paint, he investigates the aerial perspective informed by his extensive experience in the aviation industry as an air traffic controller and pilot. His passion for the urban landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador developed over the decade he spent living and working in the province. Work by Mike Fantuz has appeared in exhibitions in Canada, the USA and the UK and is found in public and corporate collections including The Rooms Provincial Art Bank, Fortis Incorporated (NL and BC), Marco Construction, The Delta Hotel St. John’s, and in numerous private collections around the world, including in Canada, the United States, Norway, Italy, and England.
Where I Search, There I'm Found
Discovered Within
Thoughts We Have Weathered
The Outer Battery
The Cities Pulse
Unveiled Breeze
Charting the Way
Above Garrison Hill
Octaves of Dawn
Airs Of Harvest
Deeper Reflections
Conversations With The Past
Memories Shall Come
In Our Image
The Outer Battery (serigraph)