Still Life With Pear & Fish

Still Life With Pear & Fish, Oil On Canvas, 16" x 16", 2012

Even in stillness there is life...

Condoronto 5

Condoronto crumbles as dollars pour in...















Condoronto 5, Oil on canvas, 36" x 48"

The Tundra Project

I somehow lament for the north, a place I have never tread upon yet here I am with plans of making the trek to paint the land and all who live upon it...to paint the arctic waters and all who live within it...to paint the forever sky and and all who take flight through it...and the ice melting - changing forever what the north will become...
First though comes finding the money and all the planning...will it be gov't grants or private sponsorship that sees me propping great sheets of plywood on the tundra surface...revving up my router to gouge out impressions and expressions...to layer on thick and thin gobs of paint as I watch it all pass before me...to have an Inuit videographer record the whole process for others to know...this is all a dream I wake to often... this is the work I need to do to see it through...

Condoronto 1

Condoronto 1 Oil On Canvas, 36" x 48"

Through the mire of building gone mad condoronto arises.

Within the shadows of the path...

New Series

  Through chaos comes a 

  razor edge clarity.

Varley

This afternoon

So on this spring day in January I wandered into AGO, not to see anything in particular, but just to wander aimlessly. I found myself oddly enough amongst all things Canadian, blown away as usual by a piece by Paterson Ewen who inspired me to take up the router in my own work, I came across a piece of nostalgia. A rather large piece by Fred Varley, a member of our own Group of 7 titled Liberation. One might see it as a ghostly representation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, I see it as a resurrection for all. My nostalgia comes from spending countless hours sitting in front of this painting when it was in it's own alcove back in the 1970's. It moved me then and it moved me today...

 http://www.naturesscene.com/artdetails.aspx?source=reg&page=1&artID=2184