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Ontario Birds
All posts tagged “Eugene Knapik artwork”
Ontario Birds
I’ve been messing about with scissors and paste, cutting up and reconstructing some photos I’ve taken out looking at birds.
Ontario Birds
Here we are headed straight for winter and I’m thinking about the spring birds.
The Source
Over the years I’ve made several paintings called The Source, including a small group of tondos I made a few years ago. It’s a theme which has captured my imagination since, as a high school student, I first saw a photo of Courbet’s famous painting… Read More
The Last Word
This small painting (about the size of a large dinner plate) was intended for my last solo show but was not exhibited. It’s acrylic on masonite and it floats off the wall a little bit. I’ll let this one speak for itself.
Stormchaser’s Dream
Stormchaser’s Dream is one of the group of encaustics I exhibited at my former gallery Yumart, back in 2016. Like the others, I started with a lozenge-shaped chunk of wood which I created from a plank using a jigsaw and a mini-grinder. I applied the… Read More
Undercover
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
Deluge
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
St. Phillips
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
Summer Days
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
27th Street 