Tuffy P (aka Sheila Gregory) asked me to post some pictures of a bunch of her paintings online, so I set up a blog for her and posted them that way. Please go have a look. Comments are disabled over there, but if you want… Read More
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Sunday Afternoon in the Forest of No Return
Not long ago, I posted a sneak peak into the Anchovy Can, my little studio located in a cave deep beneath Anchovy World Headquarters. There was a reader request to see a better shot of the new painting, so today I snapped a couple photos.… Read More
Four woodcuts from 1987
In 1987, I was living and working in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave. here in Toronto. It was once a hardware store and had pegboard walls, which made for excellent walls for a painting studio. I fixed up the place so I had a… Read More
some small paintings
A few small paintings have been haunting my studio since I made them in 2007 or 2008. I was using some collage elements in these works and also using corrugated cardboard as well as acrylic paint. I think they’re about 18 inches wide and 12… Read More
The Big Bird
Tuffy P and I have been work on this owl mosaic for months. We finally finished it up last night and hung it out front this morning. All the tesserae have been cut from various tiles, broken dishes, bowls and vases using a little tile… Read More
Painting
I did a major studio clean-up and reorganization recently and have started on a new painting after taking an extended break. Actually, I’m reworking something I started ages ago that was going nowhere fast. Suddenly, fog in my brain around this painting is clear. Working… Read More
Painting Too
We’re used to much of the fare on television reduced to formulaic reality show competition. Now art too has become a competition. This live event is apparently quite popular. To me, art, and painting in particular, has always been something special. I recall as a… Read More
The Source
I made this painting, (or should I say alter my ego Eugene Knapik made this painting?) back in 1998 and exhibited it, along with a group of very small oil paintings, in an exhibition in Toronto called Canadian Shield. The exhibition was a large-scale group… Read More
The Train
For no reason I can think of, this afternoon I recalled a song I used to really like called The Train by The Roches. I had their first record, on vinyl of course. There was something about their harmonies and their quirky lyrics that captured… Read More
Food
I came across this amongst my files this afternoon. A few years ago, I was doing some fly fishing and camping on the Upper Michigan Penninsula when I saw this sign at the side of the road. Food. Not burgers and fries; not pasties; not… Read More
27th Street 