On a cold, dark autumn evening, the light I saw was just a glimmering of the sun setting over the water between the clouds. The only warm colour to be seen that day, or any other day in that very long week.
The mist, the rain, the drizzle hovers in a brooding landscape. Perhaps it is a story about the year we are going through; the light represents hope and changing 'fear into calm'.
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.
The summer solstice; it is the anticipation of the warmth of the earth, the beauty of a flowering world. It is a festival of brilliant ligh...
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