The brilliance of the focused intensity of the setting sun makes up for its all too brief appearance during the days of shortened light.
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| (2017, canvas 16"x12") |
Resolve is needed.
Monday, December 18, 2017
The Western Sky
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, December 10, 2017
Still Life in the Library
Layers of sequence and consequence, of grace and angularity -- awkward views looking out at the world.
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| Drawing LMould 30 April 2017 |
A space that is so inward and regardless of platform, casts its net wide and its web out. Seemingly still but always in motion.
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| Drawing LMould 2 May 2017 |
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, December 3, 2017
Gold Leaf
There are angular complexities stabilizing the flow through our complicated nature.
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| Gold Leaf (papiers colles 8" x 5.5") |
Our narratives tell these tales. Some are taller than others.
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, November 19, 2017
Climate Control while Living on a Mountain
In the heat-filled days of what seemed like a never ending summer, the memory of cool and cold came to me as a solace.
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| Dreams of Winter, 1994 (acrylic on paper) |
Yes, winter dreams, the antidote for hot, wet-blanket like,
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| Blue Mist, 1994 (acrylic on paper) |
humid days of the dry season.
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| The River Way, 1994 (acrylic on paper) |
It is one view from window in the mind's eye.
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| Ambiguity: Land and Sea, 1995 (acrylic on paper) |
Counteracting.
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| Arctic Light, 2002 (acrylic on paper) |
Relieving.
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| Cool Blue Skies, 2001 (acrylic on paper) |
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.
Monday, November 13, 2017
It's just a line
It's just a line until it becomes a space.
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| 2017 June 26 (papiers colles 6" x 4") |
It's just a space defined by lines and entry points.
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, October 29, 2017
Flitting
Flitting moments describe anything but this process.
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| "Flitting", 2017 (papiers colles with ink 6"x4") |
Fitting title.
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, October 22, 2017
West River Country
It was the rolling hills, and the sloping fields, and the hidden mouth of the West River that gave the August report back in 2007.
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| West River Country (acrylic on paper, 7.5” x 20”) |
Reflections of 2010 repeated the deal,
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| Reflections (acrylic on canvas, 20" x 28") |
but not to be out done, it was a return to the same hills and fields that fed the sky in this South Shore West River country report of October 2011. Plans C, D and E indeed.
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| The South Shore (acrylic on paper, 15" x 22") |
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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