Those of you who saw my last painting exhibition may remember a painting called The Cuckoo and another called She Warbles as She Flies… The titles of those paintings come from a song often played in the clawhammer banjo style. We think of it as… Read More
Our friend Claude Breeze has an exhibition on at Yumart, here in Toronto. It opened yesterday. We’ve known Claude since the early 80s when he was our painting instructor at York University. I’ve actually been aware of Claude’s work since before I ever met him,… Read More
Here’s an oil painting called Bloom from 2001 from a lengthy series I called The Blackthorn Paintings. This one is around 17 inches square.
Yesterday afternoon we were at the opening of Tim Noonan’s show of new paintings. That’s Tim in the picture with his painting, Turtle Island. Check out Tim’s work at Yumart Gallery. With this exhibition, Tim continues to bring his exuberant, sometimes jarring, expressionist palette… Read More
Here’s a painting from 2011. It’s acrylic and found object on panel and it’s 68X44 inches. I call it False Morel or The Mycologist’s Bad Dream. This painting has been hanging down in my little basement studio for some time. I keep it up because… Read More
Av Isaacs was at one time the premiere art dealer in Toronto, operating both the Isaacs Gallery and The Innuit Gallery. I recall as a young art student going downtown to galleries, making the stop on Yonge St to see what was showing at Isaacs.… Read More
Here is a painting I made in the mid-90s, after a fly fishing trip to Montana with my friend East Texas Red. This is a good-sized painting, 6 feet or maybe even a little wider, oil and spray enamel on canvas. It’s called Shack Nasty.… Read More
That’s Corey from Silver Lion Framing here in #longbranchTO with a painting from our little collection by Kentucky folk artist Charley Kinney he is framing up for us.
I’m trying to figure out just when I made this painting. It must have been sometime in the 90s but I don’t remember what year. I had been out west and met a friend of Candy Minx, a fascinating fellow named Pete, who gave us… Read More
Here’s Matt Kinman, performing the Merle Travis masterpiece, Dark as a Dungeon. There are a few coal mining tunes around. Let’s listen to The Mountain by Steve Earle, performed here by Mr. Earle withLevon Helm and his band. And to cap off this little coal… Read More
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