I had my first one man art show in a Toronto Gallery in the prestigious Yorkville gallery district over 20 years ago. I was in my late 20’s and on top of the world creatively, so I thought. It was a reasonably good show, I sold a few works and I thought I was on [...]
Inspiration comes in many ways.
As I do every morning, I have a prescribed routine I follow when I paint as I am sure most everyone does when they go to work or start their day. I make my coffee, get the newspaper, check my emails then I go down to the studio, where I put [...]
Colour to a painting is like touch is to the skin. The subtlety can be electrifying, sending sensations through the body as the colour slowly meanders across the canvas. Finding those hidden areas that call out for colour, for touch, is an artist’s desire, deciding on that exact tone, exact mixture of touch, of pressure, [...]
Today I made love to my canvas. If you are an artist you will know what I mean. If you are not an artist, you will become one…..
I have to admit I am feeling somewhat vulnerable right now. I have never been this open about a process that usually happens within my mind, by myself, within the confines of my studio. There is comfort knowing that you can have a bad day, screw up or just hide when things aren’t going well, [...]
I didn’t get much accomplished today. It simply took too long for the paint to dry. This layer was very wet, applied with brush and sponge.
I am now beginning the most difficult, frustrating yet creatively rewarding part of the painting process. I have no idea what to expect during this phase. I will have good days (layers) and not so good layers. There will be moments where I will think I have lost the painting and will want to give [...]
So far I have spent about 30 hours on this painting. Not that it is any indication of progress but people always seem to ask. I am now finished what I call the underpainting or the point where I am ready to really begin creating art . Call it the fog , drip or atmospheric process or my [...]
Here you see the painting after the first layer of paint. I work in a “fill in the blanks” style of painting during the first phase. My art professor in university, Ronald Bloore always impressed upon me the importance of “just getting paint on to the canvas.” Think of those old paint by numbers painting kits [...]
The work “Angel in the Forest’ took me over 5 years to complete. It began as a simple idea to do a landscape of the forest in my backyard on the Scarborough Bluffs that overlook Lake Ontario. You get the most incredible fog that rolls up through the ravine off the lake that I wanted to capture in a very [...]