I made this painting a number of years ago – I would have to check the back of it to tell you the exact date – maybe 2005? I’ve never exhibited it, but I did post of a photo of it here once before. Evidence… Read More
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Hop into my time machine….
After university (I graduated in 83), I started making paintings in a shared studio behind a convenience store in The Junction, way back before The Junction was a cool-hipster-artsy area. That was a good place to start out, but I wanted to find a place … Read More
Image on the edges of my memory
Here’s a digital image I came across in a file buried on my computer. I made it, but I don’t remember making it, or even when I made it. I think it is part of a group of digital things I made in the early… Read More
The Architect – a blast from the past
Here is a painting I made back in the 80s, called The Architect. This one hung in a friend’s house for a number of years, until one day he gave it back to me. I still really enjoy this painting and I’ve hung onto it… Read More
The Market in Caldas da Rainha
Here’s another photo manipulation, or whatever you want to call it, which I did several years ago after a trip to Portugal. We were staying not far from Caldas da Rainha and I made this image from photos of the wonderful old market in that… Read More
Edge of Town
Here is some kind of digital collage image I cooked up a decade ago. I just came across it minding its own business in a file on my computer. There must have been some good reason I saved this one, so I might as well… Read More
What’s wrong with this picture?
Paintings by famous Canadian artists — including Lawren Harris and Tom Thomson — garnered record prices on Thursday night at the Heffel Fine Art Auction at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto. Mountain and Glacier by Lawren Harris was the biggest seller of the night, fetching a whopping $3.9… Read More
Science Fiction Painting by Fred R. Messer
Here is a science fiction painting by Fred R. Messer we were able to pick up as part of a lot of 4 works by the artist for very attractive price at the Slotin Folk Art Auction, which took place on the weekend down in… Read More
A beautiful November day
What a spectacular fall day. Here at 27th Street, the sun warmed things up enough that I could sit on the front porch and frail my banjo for an hour or so. I spent most of that time working on a piece called Lonesome John.… Read More
Nick’s Place
This is a scan of a small photo-collage I made this afternoon, which I call Nick’s Place. It’s made up of parts of photos taken at two different trout streams. The mossy landscape parts and the single tree come from the canyon stretch of a… Read More
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