Between Edna And Ann
Oil On Canvas
24 x 40"
2023
At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Tornado Weather
Tornado Weather (King Street West, Kitchener)
Oil On Canvas
12 x 24"
2023
At O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tickled Pink
It's lovely to be shown alongside David Hockney, David Bolduc and Mr. Lukacs at O'Connor Gallery, Gananoque.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Detail - Copy from Poussin's 'The Inspiration Of The Poet'
A Copy Of A Section From Poussin's 'L'Inspiration du poète'
8 x 16"
Oil on gessoed, mounted wood panel
2022
Sunday, December 11, 2022
A New Painting!
Copy II of Delauney's Eiffel Tower.
36x48"
Oil On Canvas
2022
I love Delauney's work - and especially this one from his Eiffel Tower series. So, this is the second time I've painted a copy of it. Great fun.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Morning Embarkation
Finished at last!
This will be going to O'Connor Gallery in a few days.
Morning Embarkation
48 x 60" (approx)
Oil On Canvas
2007-2022
"Frankhensteen!"
I thought I would do an oil painting of Gene Wilder from the material for 'Young Frankenstein', for a friend, partly as an exercise - I thought it would interesting to do a grisaille. That's a grey layer that underlies a certain way of oil painting - grey beneath, then colour on top. I don't usually work that way - I mix a full palette on the side then dive in - but this was interesting to paint. Especially for how few layers of paint it needed to complete itself. Some of my colour ones are twelve, fifteen, thirty layers of glazes and whatnot. This one is about three.
We loved the movie growing up. Still do.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
Early Spring
This painting, too, is heading off to O'Connor.
It's an early work I did, with some later retouchings.
'Early Spring',
36"x48"
Oil On Canvas,
2002.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Who?
A little oil sketch I just did of Christopher Eccleston as the 1st (newly rebooted ) Dr. Who. It's not based on one of my own photos - it's from one I pulled from the 'web, so it' s not for sale. That would be tawdry. Mr. Eccleston has a great face, though, so I thought it would be fun to paint him as fortifying practice. Cha!
Friday, October 14, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Saturday, September 24, 2022
New Studio Space!
For the first time since I started painting, I've been able to find studio space out of the house. This is a big deal. For the sake of my vanity, it means oil paint and construction won't be slowly destroying anything in my house with a finish nicer than a cement mixer. But really, it's about getting up and going to work! I get to leave the house, interact with the world and set myself down where I can concentrate on the task at hand.
Kitchener, Ontario, has had a hard time recovering from the massive recession of the early '90's that saw a big chunk of manufacturing businesses relocate elsewhere. The manufacture-based towns around Toronto (not unlike the rust belt in the U.S.) have been trying all sorts of strategies to recover. Kitchener is attached to the city of Waterloo. In the 80's, Waterloo began investing in tech. Flash forward - that town, once just an appendix to Kitchener is now it's powerhouse. Kitchener in turn, has been investing in tech as well, plus the arts. It has been paying off.
The city funds an 'arts accelerator' at a nifty former post office downtown. A number of arts groups have set up in it - and more engagingly, a good number of artists as the building provides subsidized studio spaces. It took months, but I finally got in.
So far, the experience has been great.
I feel very fortunate. Thanks, Kitchener!
New Painting - "Vestibule"
"Vestibule"
Oil On Mounted Wood Panel
18 x 24"
2022
At O'Connor Gallery in Gananoque.
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