At some point a couple years ago I started cutting shapes out of masonite and making them into paintings or whatever it is they are. As usual I was groping around, trying to find a way forward. I wanted to break away from some of… Read More
The title of this painting refers to Niagara St in Toronto. I rented a studio in a building located where Niagara and Tecumseth meet, which was known as the casket factory because once upon a time that’s what it was. This painting, from the early… Read More
A few years ago I made some small paintings using materials like cardboard, flyers, and various other bits and pieces of stuff I found around the studio. I used an add-and-substract process, gluing materials on, adding paint then ripping back layers of material. They’re bumpy… Read More
In late September/early October of 2001, Sheila and I honeymooned in Newfoundland. Thanks to a friend out there we had a great place to stay in Pouch Cove. We did lots of hiking and some landscape drawing while we were there, but most importantly, the… Read More
Last year I exhibited a series of shaped paintings. I was feeling like I had reached some kind of cul-de-sac with my painting – I had painted myself into a corner, so to speak, and I needed to break out. Breaking out meant breaking from… Read More
Today I’m going to begin what I expect will be a lengthy series of blog posts featuring paintings I have in inventory, and I’ll keep these posts together on the Eugene Knapik Paintings page here at 27th Street. Anyone interested in purchasing a painting, arranging… Read More
Eddy Mumma was born in Milton Ohio in 1908 and passed in Gainesville Florida in 1986. He took a painting class at age 60 at the suggestion of his daughter, but abandoned the class, unimpressed by the instructor’s criticism. Mumma, or Mr. Eddy, as he… Read More
Here’s a blast from the past. I made this large diptych back in 1998 and exhibited it in an exhibition we put together called Canadian Shield, in a large 2-floor warehouse space. It’s about 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall. I painted it with… Read More
Shields Landon “S.L.” Jones (1901-1997) was from West Virginia. He worked for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for 45 years. After the death of his wife in 1967, he took up whittling figures and drawing as a hobby in his retirement. He also played the… Read More
The other day I posted a pic of a painting of a yellow cat by Charley Kinney. Here’s another of his works, this one a fishing scene. You can see there are two people fishing. One is about to hook a lunker of a creature,… Read More
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