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In the Nave of My Soul
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‘Get A Life’ series, 2011
These abstract oil paintings explore the idea of painting from the “inside out”; from the human body's internal structure, to the process of externalizing deep spiritual impulses. Get a Life is an affirmation of the compelling energies arising from painting intuitively, trusting (as we do with life itself) that what will come, will be life-giving. |
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I Tell My Love in Colour
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The Motherhouse |
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Just To Live is Holy
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In the Birth You Will Have All Blessings
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Winter Palace
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"Our Dead Never Forget This Beautiful Earth" (Chief Seattle)
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"You must give birth to your images" (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Floating World #1
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Floating World series, 2009
My own version of “the floating world” arises
from the pleasures of living in a comfortable small town. My
town, however, has the uneasy distinction of housing a uranium
processing plant which sits scenically on the shore of Lake Ontario. The
paintings in this series play with this dichotomy, by representing
a reflected world that is different from the world above the
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Floating World #2
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Happytown, Ontario #1 |
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Happytown, Ontario #2
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Shore 1
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Ice & Shore, 2008/09
These pieces explore perception and how
we read the elements of design. By applying different kinds
of surfaces, combining geometric and organic shapes, and using
colour to advance or recede parts of the composition, contradictory
messages are sent. The overall effect is of landscapes, which
seems to resolve the contradictions.
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Ice 1
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Kore with Boat
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Kore series, 2007
The Kore is a conventional figure (stereotype)
in ancient Greek pottery, representing a young girl. She was
kidnapped by the god of the underworld, and grieved by her
mother Demeter, an earth mother figure. The myth still possesses
a poignancy to which we can relate our individual stories of
growing up and away from innocence.
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Kore and the Elders
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Kore and Hecate
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Blue
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Abstract work, 2005 - 2007
The mystery of beginnings, transformation,
and sacred spaces is an ongoing muse for my wanderings in paint.
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Turbulence
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Fullness
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Threnody
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Beginning of the World
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Maybe
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Figurative work, 2005–06
In these pieces, the body was a starting
point for capturing a deep respect for life, its pain and pleasure.
In regular life drawing sessions, I continue my fascination
with the body’s expressive qualities.
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Oscar 1
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Oscar 2
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Sleeping with the Fishes
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