Growth is not always in the springtime. This year has ushered out the old one with expressions of good riddance. Hopefully we have learned the lessons taught to us in 2020 in a year so fraught with difficulties and sorrow. We hope that 2021 will, indeed, be a better year.
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.
Every now and again I take up graphite. There is something so satisfying about pencil on paper. HB2, HB4, HB5. HB6, and HB8. Recently I h...
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