I’d like to give you a sneak peak tonight into the goings on in my little basement studio. I’ve got a number of smallish canvases on the go and some of them are beginning to assert themselves as paintings. This one is called Five Miles… Read More
Here’s another blast from the past. This is an oil painting I made back in the 80s. It’s an oil painting. I don’t recall the exact size – I think it is around 3 feet wide. I don’t have much to say about this painting… Read More
I’ve been thinking about a series of paintings I made quite a number of years ago called Underground, so I thought I’d share one of these images tonight. Underground is actually a title I’ve applied to other paintings as well, and I suspect at some… Read More
I envy painters who can make a drawing then translate that drawing to a painting. In all the years I’ve been painting, that approach has been foreign to me. In fact I don’t make many drawings at all. For me it’s all one. When I’m… Read More
I stumbled across videos about Wesley Willis after seeing a couple of his drawings in a folk art auction. I had no idea Mr. Willis was also a musician of sorts. Mr. Willis was born in 1963 and passed in 2003. I don’t know a… Read More
I was writing the previous post about my experience of painting, and I thought of Ornette Coleman. He came to mind because it occurred to me that when I’m working in the studio I rarely think about the work of other painters (it does happen… Read More
A friend of mine was surprised when I mentioned the other day I had 8 paintings on the go in my studio. This in not an unusual circumstance for me – I’ve worked this way for many years. I don’t do this to make more… Read More
The new garden bench project features this carving in white oak by Ruth Arnold. The boulder has a hole drilled into it, and the carving has a steel threaded rod on the back. The rod fits into the whole, which has been filled with… Read More
The initial ideas for the Magnolia Bench started to come together when we made our first visit out to HGH Granite in Dundas to look at stone and try to imagine how we might make it into a bench. The initial ideas Ruth, Sheila and… Read More
Here’s an older painting called St. Phillips I made back in the winter of 2001/2002. Tuffy P and I hiked in a forest near St. Phillips when we were in Newfoundland on our honeymoon in October of 2001. I did some charcoal drawings in that… Read More
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