Here’s another new painting. This one is a round painting, a tondo if we want to get all Renaissance today. Here is The Source.

The Source

This painting is oil on panel and it is 2 feet in diameter. This is by no means the first time I’ve made a painting called the Source. The first one was in 1998. I exhibited it in an exhibition I co-organized called Canadian Shield. This painting is a large diptych which I still have. It still holds up as far as I’m concerned, although I should say this painting was not well received when I made it.

I revisited the theme in 2005 with 3 round paintings. Here are two of them…

The Source, 2005, acrylic on panel

The 2005 paintings were made with acrlyic paint, also on panel. I had 4 panels made at the time and did 3 in the series in 2005. The painting I just completed is on the 4th panel. I exhibited the earlier round ones at NSCAD in Halifax a few years ago. I don’t have any plans to exhibit any of the new paintings.

Over the years I’ve made paintings with all kinds of different titles, but there are a small number of titles that I’ve used a number of times, The Source being one of them. The others that come to mind are Underground, Lost Forest and The Forest of No Return, and Sky Dragons.