Mary T. Smith was a self-taught African-American artist from Mississippi. She lived from 1904 to 1995. She was a prolific artist during the years in which she painted. In her yard, she apparently created some outbuildings where she painted and installed her work. Smith’s work… Read More
Sheila Gregory and I are excited to be taking part in The Brain Project for the Baycrest Foundation. Baycrest is doing awesome work changing the future of brain health. For this project, they have provided us with a cast brain ready to be transformed. We’re… Read More
Here’s a studio sneak peak. This work, called Switchback, is acrylic on masonite. It’s about 2 feet tall, and it floats a little away from the wall.
Jack Savitsky was born in 1910. He lived in Pennsylvania where he began working in the coal mines at a young age. Both his parents were immigrants, his father from Russia and his mother from Poland. He was a miner for 35 years, until 1959.… Read More
We love to be surrounded by images in our day to day life. The late Ron Bloore once told me, “painting is thinking,” so you might say we love to live in an environment brimming with ideas. One of the things I like about painting… Read More
The great British painter Howard Hodgkin passed on March 9 of this year, but I only found out about it last evening, which Tuffy P came across something on the internet. He was 84. Mr. Hodgkin made deceptively simple, powerful abstract paintings. In some of… Read More
We trundled off to yumart today as our old friend Claude Breeze’s exhibition TOYBOX was opening up. We’ve known Claude since about 1980 or 1981, when we were among his painting students at York University. Somehow or another, after we graduated from York we remained… Read More
l’m working on a series of shaped paintings on masonite. The shapes float about 3/4 inch from the wall. This one is maybe 20 inches at its widest point. It doesn’t have a title yet…
I made a sculpture (if you can imagine such a thing) by combining and re-purposing unusual objects and adding some paint. I call him Orange Man. The top section can be re-positioned by simply turning it. Now that I’ve got this out of my system,… Read More
I’m continuing to paint on paper with tempera and big brushes. It occurred to me that I was going back in a way, back before filling my head with images and ideas and ways of looking at the world. Painting is thinking, that’s the ticket.… Read More
