Category: New Work
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I certainly didn’t expect that. While many of my paintings are open to interpretation regarding their content, I’ve never felt that my scenes of mostly urban life were particularly controversial. I just finished the first of a series of paintings of Saint John, New Brunswick. The plan is to make a series of affordable giclees…
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Deciding when a painting is done is not easy. You don’t want to give up too early, and you don’t want it to have the life crushed out of the work either. I think my paintings largely tell me when they are done, although sometimes they can be quite obstinate about crossing the finish line.…
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It’s been a bit of a whirlwind over the last month, travelling to the East Coast, participating in a self-portrait show at the Leslie Grove Gallery (where I finished third in the competition), responding to further call for entries and getting back into the studio. It feels like I have done little over the summer,…
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I finished reading the Taschen book about David Hockney about a week before the artist passed June 11. The book, and by extension Hockney’s career, energized me in ways I didn’t expect. I had planned for some time to do another self-portrait, this one a more considered effort after several small studies done in 2025.…
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Its a big day here. My first monograph is being delivered this afternoon. The 58th Annual Oshawa Art Association show opens tonight, of which I have a painting in this group show of about 90 Durham, Region Artists. And I need to make significant progress on a larger Port Perry painting (24″ x 24″) for…
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This was another moment on my travels when I realized I was looking at a future painting. Sometimes you just know. Across from the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh there is a bridal shop in an elegant building that echoes the formality of their wares. Next to it is a tangle of foliage…
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I took Sunday off. That is a bit of a rarity for me since I started down this path back to art. It helped that there was a Blue Jays game on during the afternoon — time I normally spend in the art hut. Art is a consuming exercise, the painting activity only half the…
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When I titled this painting I wasn’t a hundred per cent sure of where it was. I took a picture en route to Grosmont, where we were to take an hour ride aboard the Flying Scotsman along the North York Moors Railway. Yes, that was one of the trains used in the Harry Potter movies…
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When I was young I briefly toyed with the idea of as a career as an architect. Then I laughed when someone told me about the level of math I would need. I never knew if that was true or not, especially when I look at the scribbling of somebody like the late Frank Gehry.…
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And now for something completely different, well, almost. I wanted to challenge myself with a painting that would be as much from my imagination as it was from reference sources (eg. photos). I also, as usual, wanted to keep it loose and painterly. Digging through my parents collection of snapshots, I found one of Wasaga…
