…when I venture into my painting studio, I do so with the uneasy feeling that anything can happen.
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My Attempt at Giving up Painting has ended in Failure
To steal a line from the Merle Travis, “like a fiend with his dope, and a drunkard his wine…” I’ve found my way back into the little studio I’ve been calling The Anchovy Can. It seems I’m unable to stay away indefinitely. Here is another… Read More
Sheila Gregory paintings
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
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 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
Deluge
A Blast from the Past
Here’s a painting called Underground #3, which my alter ego did back in 2002. The photo is a bit deceptive because the edges of the painting are not in fact regular on two sides. This series was done with oil paint on aluminum. There were… Read More
Doris McCarthy RIP
Canadian painter Doris McCarthy died on November 25 at age 100. Ms McCarthy had a 40 year career as a teacher before dedicating herself full-time to painting the Canadian landscape. She was also the author of three memoirs. She is best known for her paintings… Read More
David Bolduc RIP
Sad news. Canadian painter David Bolduc has died from brain cancer. He was just 65.
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