Some much better photos (than my studio snaps) of Paintings from the Lost Forest are now up on the Yumart site. Check them out.
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Wingy
My dad liked a lot of old jazz when I was a kid. He was one of those guys who could hear a horn player on a jazz record and tell you who the player was. And if you gave him the name of a… Read More
Iko
Anyone remember the Dixie Cups version?
When spring really starts….
In our lakefront Toronto communities, the change-over from winter to spring and from fall to winter is marked by the local sailors taking their yachts out of the water before the freeze and putting them back in when the idea of sailing again becomes palatable.… Read More
For those who can’t get to the gallery…
Photographs of my paintings will give you an idea of what the paintings are like, but my work has a lot of variations in texture and surface quality that are really hard to see in a photograph on the internet. Still they still provide an… Read More
Paintings from the Lost Forest
Here are some pictures from the opening reception today for my new painting show at Yumart, here in Toronto.
Aretha
We had a great time tonight at the Aretha Franklin show at Roy Thomson Hall. At 72, she looks great and sounds great. Aretha came to Toronto with a big band including a full horn section, vibes, B3, guitar, bass, a couple drummers, some singers… Read More
Delta blues meets visual blues
For some years we have been interested in what I guess you could call folk art or outsider art or art by “untrained” artists, and we’ve been following the Slotin auctions which occur a couple times each year. There’s one this weekend, called Delta blues… Read More
Need more days in the week please….
I completed several paintings I had on the go during the first couple months of the year, in preparation for my exhibition Paintings from the Lost Forest, which opens up at Yumart on Saturday afternoon. My little basement studio looks empty with the works out… Read More
Trouble in Mind
Trouble in Mind is a song that has been around the block a time or two. It was written by a jazz piano player named Richard M. Jones and recorded first in 1924 by Themla La Vizzo (vocals) and Jones on piano. Here’s an old-time… Read More
27th Street 