My Paintings from the Lost Forest exhibition this spring at Yumart featured oil paintings with a high level of impasto. I tried to make full use of a variety of surface qualities and textures as I built up the images over time. However, there is… Read More
I’m participating in an upcoming Summer Salon exhibition at Yumart. Opening Reception: Saturday July 26th, 2014 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Exhibition continues to Saturday August 16th. This is a show that will be packed full of work by the following participating artists: Isaac Applebaum, Christopher… Read More
Regular readers know that I have a painting show happening now at Yumart, here in Toronto. I don’t usually write much about my paintings. I like to let them speak for themselves. However, I was asked quite a few questions about the works at the… Read More
Photographs of my paintings will give you an idea of what the paintings are like, but my work has a lot of variations in texture and surface quality that are really hard to see in a photograph on the internet. Still they still provide an… Read More
This has been a busy Saturday – I’ve been on the go most of the day. But I didn’t want to miss the opening of YM Whelan’s exhibition at Yumart (101 Spadina Toronto). Yvonne has put together a great collection of new paintings. Lots of… Read More
I’ve been working on several smallish paintings in my little basement studio. Some of these are paintings that have been in play down there for some time (in a couple cases, for years). I even took one painting I thought I had finished some time… Read More
Some days I envy painters who have the ability to preconceive their paintings. I knew a painter who would make a planning drawing for each painting and even label areas with descriptions of texture and colour. These were like road-maps to his paintings. Then he… Read More
We were out at Yumart today – Yvonne Whelan’s gallery at 101 Spadina (here in Toronto of course) – for the opening of a group exhibition of small works. That’s Tim Deverell in the photo along with Memphis and Tuffy P. We hadn’t intended to… Read More
Somebody landed on 27th Street after entering “Eugene Knapik paintings worth money” twice into a search engine (the first time with a question mark, and the second time more like a statement, without the interrogative). I prefer it without the question mark, frankly. I can’t… Read More
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