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| The Playful Dunes: Clear Horizon, 2018 (24" x 24" canvas) |
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| The Playful Dunes: Shifting Horizons, 2018 (12" x 16" canvas) |
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| The Playful Dunes, a study, 2016 (15" x 11" paper) |
Sunday, August 11, 2019
It's all about horizons
The horizon line -- the one that separates the earth from the sky is not real. It is not a real line that is.
We move towards it, and it retreats before our eyes. We capture it much the way we would capture the wind -- in the offing, always just about to happen.
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.
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