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- Joy
- Red Carpet 1.0
- Poppy Garden
- Reflection; refraction; distortion
- to the finish post
- Lady Glaze
- Grimsby haunted
- the autoshow
- In the shade
- Black Skates
- Swimming Lesson
- Thunderstorm over Lake Erie
- The Drive: Return from cottage country
- Summer Concession
- Morning Dew
- The Drought
- The Cricketer
- Beach Stairs
- Blue Western Skies
- Paris Inn
- Still life studies
- Summer sunshine with teal
- Museum musings
- The Goalie
- Roadside Bouquet
- The Hockey Game
- The Bout
- January Lake Surf
- Snooker
- Fragile
- Postcard from the edge
- Winter Surf
- Clothesline
- Window with Wall
- The Walk
- The climb
- Colour Commentary
- Hockey Season
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2020
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- Open
- Winter Surf
- Beachfront
- After Sergio
- South Coast Cookhouse
- Side Street
- Lintel with green
- Garage Breaktime
- Autumn Grazing 3.1
- Trick or Treat
- Thanksgiving embers
- Koi dance
- Bird of Paradise
- Agricultural forms
- Visual Interlude
- Back Alley Bins
- Night Heron 1.11
- Grasshopper
- Sunflowers
- SAILING
- Sunflower 8s
- Heron
- Diving
- Graffiti Alley
- Summer Breezin'
- Sunflower 7.4a
- Mabel's Pizza
- Grand Vista 3.0
- Beachcomber 2.5
- Brown Door
- Lock Footbridge
- Night Flower 3.7
- Unfurling in green
- Fungi on wood
- Abandonned Truck Cab : Natures Abstracts
- Social Distancing
- South western patinas
- Covid 19 coffee break
- Murs en blanc
- abandonned tires and passages
- O'Hara Mill Homestead
- Red barn paddock
- Dundas Brewhouse
- Balzac's
- Passageways
- Melodies in blue
- Snowfall 022020
- Mallard 4.9
- Windowdressing
- London market grill
- Winter Landscapes
- Curiosity
- Winter refuge
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2019
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- Flutterby
- Sunday morning coffee
- in the doorway
- at the edge
- Chinese Herbs
- Double Entendre
- First snows
- Gage Park Diner
- Remebrance day 2019
- Apple Harvest
- Descente a la plage
- Farmers Market in orange
- The superior aesthetics of loitering
- Salmon run 2019
- Morgan 44 -8.2
- Summers End
- Migration
- ART vs TECH as GAN
- Order on line
- Venetian Meats
- Summer Harvesting
- Honda Indy Toronto 2019
- Morning Irises
- Hillside in sunlight
- Feathers in grey
- SPIRO
- Aviary 346
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2018
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- Sand Graffiti
- October Evening Harvest
- Grand River
- The game
- The fortement
- July celebrations
- Buoyancy in blues
- The decision
- Magical Blue Skies in red
- Vatican Fuschia
- RBG : In the river valley
- Bullrushes
- Spur Line
- Abstract 4
- Rural Landscape
- Sunflower #12
- Magical Blues
- Red Balloon
- Lines
- Water: B & W
- Horizon Slip
- Gravity Vortex
- Gears
- Retail narrative forms
- Thompsonian snowbirds
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2017
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- Digital Dysfunction
- Autumn Boreal Forest
- Suspended bridge
- Autumn PeeGate
- Food colour systems
- Waupoos harvest, fond fonce
- Waupoos harvest, ground in white
- Stringed instrument origins
- Caterpillar yoga
- South Garden Tinkerbells
- Side yard garden shed
- If light dissipates
- Confessional
- Oasis
- Winter Flight
- Time Drift 17
- Paleo Tattos
- Signal and Noise
- Colour Juxtapositoins
- RBG: Studies of grounds in green and blue.
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2016
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- Winter Light
- Silent Vigil
- Memory as Patina
- The Apiarists
- Reading
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Predawn Garden
- the gatherings
- Berger
- Migratory feeding
- Tulip 2016
- Bird furniture
- The bee keepers
- The Beekeepers 168
- Urban Waterfront Series
- Winter Perch
- Marsh Spring
- Found in Translations
- Disentangling the tangled garden
- Education lights a fire
- Jeremiah
- Teal Pond
- Julian Barnes
- Archimedes dreaming
- Bovine
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2015
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- Breakaway
- Rabble of ravens 1
- Vortex of difference
- Reading the trail
- The bench #2
- The journey begins
- On frozen pond : (post season)
- Colorflage strategies
- Form by any other color
- Redux A
- Overhead Perch
- Fuschia
- Study in white 2
- Rex head
- Mechanosaurus
- Sideyard skull
- Art begets
- Backyard Daffodil Still Life
- Propensity of meaning
- Pre "I-Drive" Era
- Annie's Sister - redux 1
- Listening to images.
- Figure Skate
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2014
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- Pre GoogleDriver -Release History
- IBM portrait studies #5
- this notion
- Emerald Grotto
- Ancient Byways
- Autumn Cabbage
- Off Stockdale Road, ...
- At the field edge
- Under the rose petals
- Composition in Fasteners
- Periods of transition
- Black Sunglasses
- Lake Ontario - March
- Lead positioning
- Hope
- Mobiusesque push
- Immediacy & nostalgia
- Musical interlude
- The lost prologues
- Triple salchow
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2013
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- Dreams
- This kiss
- juxtaposition in grey and white
- Feathers and woolen fields
- Red Figure
- Shaman
- Shaman #2
- The pilot school
- Art ,beauty, theory and priorities.
- Blue collar
- The shaman's light
- SIlent mooring
- Catnap
- Purple Jacket
- Golden ground
- County cornfield in spring
- Horizon-scapes
- Painting only begins with vision
- The advent of jewelry
- The raku apprentice
- Shadow cinema
- Spring Horizons
- Patina & Portaiture
- Winters last waltz?
- Return Migration
- Christmas Snowfall
- Release
- Pursuit and reading meaning.
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2012
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- Considerations on augmented paintings
- West of Amherst Island
- December Cadmium Orange
- Young turkey
- Parks Studio Road Crossing
- Beside the orchard
- Heirlooms and contemporary
- Art shrink wrapped
- Poppy 11.11
- The nephews funeral 3
- Attending to what is
- Upon a bed of gravel
- Among the hydro lines
- Interest in the interested
- Homo Collectus
- Brightons Mute Swans
- Triangulation & pointing
- Commonalities & distinctions
- The paintings never finished
- Derivatives and reflections
- The stone Herald
- Faces
- Eyeshadow in gold
- The boat (Belize)
- Saint Patricks
- Side studio door
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The pilot school © 2013 Study |
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Style and subject matter Just north of a small retirement leisure port, i stopped into a bric-a-brac shop- nick knacks, but of the primitive sort. It was bewildering and almost shocking.The place was thriving, employees all about, Their goods were imports from Asia , Africa and where ever manpower was marginally paid. Crated sculptures of Asian Buddhist styled figurines, crated one after the other. Masks and Rocco carved scenes of wildlife , the sort of paraphernalia offered all over to tourist after tourists. Yet mixed within these stereotypes , were metal sculptures, composed of complex parts , revealing snarling teeth and pedigree of the alien film series. And over there, life size metal soldiers of the Transformer genre, even a painting of the Rolling Stones..... i was bewildered, such a mish-mash of styles, what could tie Buddhism to horror science fiction? What were they selling here? Upon contemplation, it could be all regrouped under exotica. Even the mammal sculls with the engraved Harley Davidson logo. These were all images of outsider symbolism. The far off exotic, brought here so the tourist need not go abroad. Easy for anyone to proclaim their adherence to any group of unique character, on the edge of mainstream. Prepackaged exotica.... Just west of another leisure port, I watched a group of arc residents, browsing through another store of primitive paraphernalia. Stranger and stranger offerings. As their commercial sign proudly proclaimed, 'To quote a customer, this is Walt Disney for adults!” ' Sitting in a waiting room in yet another sportsman port, the TV plays a Pixar movie, to fill the time. Oddly the bully dinosaur, reminds me of the chief mean locust in another animation, whom reminds me of the nasty sabre tooth tiger of another animated work... the style and stories are so much alike, somewhat like the stereotypes of the far off exotica resembled each other in intent. Just what are we being sold? Style and story themes, echoing off of each other. Satisfying markets that do thrive. Disconcertingly so. Mass culture. It makes me reflect upon an exhibit I had just seen the day before in a gallery among the vineyards. One artist was offering works in exactly the same style as I had done earlier. This had happened before in a New York galleries exhibit a few years back as well. Styles, echoing each other -like those exotica bric a brac....? Is art selling the same thing? Is art but selling? In the same lakeside port, I walk into a university gallery nearby. A gallery of this, a gallery of that, bric a brac almost. Each just a theme, just a style, just art. Then in the gallery of 'master works” I encounter not one, but two Rembrandt's.. so small in scale, the second and third I have ever seen. Tiny studies, but such a huge presence within each. Both portraits were portraits, both elderly men. One was of a story of a rabbi before a ceremony, yet you could have told any story with that image and it probably would have fit, he arts presence wasn't because of the actual subject, even the style of the two portraits somehow fell to side. As art , they mesmerized with a different intrigue. What had the artist seen? What was he asking if I saw as well? Incredibly wonderful.These two works in this out of the way art gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, are worth the journey. They embody, they speak not of style, nor of subject, but a looking, a regard, a seeking and even an approachment on the part of the artist. Possibly simply the light of a lantern seeking a truth in the world. Everything else in the galleries had become bric-a-brac in its own offering besides these pieces.Beyond a simple case of historical evolution of style or progress in painting. They stood as themselves. Their style and stories were actually irrelevant, they were overshadowed by something else, something a mass market can't offer. Art. Incredibly beautiful paintings.. |
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