Gnarled, knotty and showing their age.
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| 2018, (acrylic on paper, 22" x 15") |
A certain grace lies in their forms.
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Friday, October 26, 2018
Olive-Green Grove
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, April 13, 2014
The Vase
Ornamental, some of them -- a receptacle and a container for all kinds of things, sometimes. Practical for flowers though, or olive oil.
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| Olive Oil, 2004 |
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| The Vase, 2007 |
Down through the ages, the vase has traveled with us.
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| 2013 |
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| 2009 |
Hollow but not empty.
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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