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New Stills My first inclination as an artist was to look into space, the next to study pictures and then to draw. I can remember this back to kindergarten. My first images made out of school, were portraits. They came easily to me and without study, study that is in institutional form. I realize I have always studied as I am always looking, even my dreams in sleep are detailed, full and bright. So I have returned to my first inclination...drawing and meditating the mark. I have stripped away all I am not interested in and left the stills on pedestals, their reflections to ground them and otherwise isolated them to read as sculpture. Once framed they are reinforced in this manner and the marks sit in space in a box. The force that dictates the discipline each is painted in, relies on the inspiration that speaks to me at that precise moment. The next brings another, so abundant and rich is life. View now

Viva La France Upon my first visit to France, I melted. I felt the vivaciousness of all this country has contributed to beauty over the centuries. I found it to be a forceful energy and yet receptive as well. The greatest smiles are given after you have given yours. These works show you what I painted before my visit, after, and of even different terrain but all with that glorious French light. View now

INTERIORS These intimate spaces are small and on paper...I call them "sighs" they engage and delight the eye like puzzles in the quiet hours of a long grey winter. Our eyes run over the pieces gobbling up colour, making sense of them, attaching them to a greater whole. One can venture in, sit in a chair, fill the white paper spaces or just enjoy the space. Also included are some larger interiors. View now

Go home, go big In 2004 I returned home to rural London. Eventually the landscape got to me. It was recommended to me by Nan Pattison, a painter I met working at Museum London, that I paint large. She said that something happens when I paint large and she pointed out the white spaces I left. Here are the large next to the small. The white spaces create a luminescence separate from the subject matter. Up close the subject matter hovers on abstract and as you move away the eye mixes the palette and the pieces of colour begin to represent. View now

reflecting on abstraction On a road trip I photographed water and saw the potential of working with pieces of colour in another way. View now

GEOCHROMA Geochroma was comprised of my landscapes of Sifton Bog & new still life and the work of Jeff Willmore. Geochroma illustrated how two painters fuse colour and their approach to Ontario landscape. It was the launch of my most abstract work to date, as the form and colour stood on its own. The license taken in colour is found in "Fauve" paying homage to its namesake and is also the greatest departure from the subject. View now

trees These trees range in scale and format, closer, farther etc, showing what I strung together, pattern, stroke and colour as form. You will notice black marks in the composition of most of them. I did not use black paint in mixing my palette as it deadens the colour. I used charcoal or conte separately as black. View now

William & Piccadilly From 2005 to June 2009 William Street was my home. I loved the grace and substance, old trees and no flash in old north. Most of these still lifes were painted there with some exception. The name before the studio tells you where I painted it, hence William Studio etc,. View now

ZSUZSI & elgin studio Zsuzsi offered me her sunroom to paint in on my return to BC after residency in Florida as I had two shows in BC. It was my most productive year to date and to those familiar with my work, a major turning point. The gray rainy days planted my eyes on the reflections in Zsuzsi's dining table and the silk drapes I helped choose, working well to provide me with the colour I was starved for. I worked on shadows, glass and overall compositions. Zsuzsi and I walked the park, even in the rain. It also was the first I saw landscape everyday. View now

PLASMA & Commissions Doesnt everyone want to hide their plasma TV or LCD and all its wiring etc? You can commission a four panel painting, attached to a cabinet, inset into or attached to a wall for over a fireplace or existing furnishings. They are priced framed with the cabinet. I accept any subject unless I cannot find inspiration in it. Express yourself by commissioning me to do the subject or a palette of your choice. View now