The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. Major influences on my work have been the Canadian landscape, the tropical forest of the Congo and the land of the Mediterranean/Middle East. Born in Exeter, Ontario,I studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, McGill University in Montreal and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières.
I always ask one question; when does the unconventional become so utterly conventional as to become uninteresting - dull in fact? I hope these are not dull whatever else they are. Let me know what you think.
To be alert to the forces of darkness and division is to be mindful of the suffering of the peoples of the planet who are part of our collec...
I have always loved this definitive and creative type of artist expression. Wanderings of the mind coursing slopes of angles and rigid forms; softened vistas in bright moments of color as enlightenment - against the black and white of pen and ink - rise out of pulpy pages, a forest of meaning and truth!! Scripted curves and sails on reach out of page to catch "the onrushing" winds of "Grace" that stir a heart's canvases of longing; a flutter!
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