Along the lines of landscape
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| Ink drawing (6" x 4") |
in black and white.
Showing posts with label cypress trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cypress trees. Show all posts
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Landscape Lines
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.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Once I lived on a Mountain - reprised
Once I lived on a mountain - cypress trees grew there, in abundance.
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| Cypress in Yellow, 1998 (acrylic on paper) |
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| Veils of Haifa, 1998 (acrylic on paper) |
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| Cypresses at Bahji, 2000 (acrylic on paper) |
They still grow there on terraces and in circles. They surround the olive groves and interact with palm trees, always reaching upward.
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.
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Sketches From a Town in the Rainforest
Sketches from a steamy rainforest in the heart of Africa from long ago and far away in another time and another place when I was younger than today and things looked different but were as normal as could be in their own reality of what once was.
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| From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5) |
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| From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5) |
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| From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5) |
In a world that was black and white and colour including technicolor,
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| From a sketchbook (5.5 x 8.5) |
and yes, it is a small world after all.
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.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Once I Lived on a Mountain -- reprised
Once I lived on a mountain. It is an ancient mountain, a historic mountain, a significant mountain. Held to be sacred, still it is not spared modern development. Cities and towns grow all along its length.
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| Veils of Haifa, 1999 (canvas) |
Parched for water half the year, yet it is green in spots and undeveloped still -- in spots.
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.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Living on a Mountain
Once I lived on a mountain. It always gave choices.
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| Paper Collage 2014 (6" x 4") |
Do I go up or down? Everyday.
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.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Cover Versions
There is a different feel about being published; different from finishing, showing and/or selling. A new book of poetry called "Walking on the Waves: Poems" by Jackie Mehrabi has on its cover a reproduction of a painting of mine called Cypresses in Yellow.
The original painting, finished in 1998, was an expression of the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa.
Other posts expressing other reflections on that mountain, on the heat of a summer's day are
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.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Negative Space and Cypress Trees
Negative space! It is actually non-existent and yet it can be filled.
It can be filled or left to take the shape that was taken from it, or the affirmative shape.
Could this be a visible expression of turning "negation into affirmation"?
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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