Lady of The Lake

This 1992 collograph was a gift for my mother.

Where Faeries Live

Have you ever been to a place where it really did feel like there were Faeries hiding around you?

I painted this at twilight at just such a place.

Trees in the Middle Ground

Someone asked, "How do you paint trees when they're near enough to see them individually, but far enough that you don't need that much detail?"

This sketchbook page from 2004 uses overlapping zig-zag rows of 'trees.' See the top right where two of these fringes meet.

"Calais" is another favorite painting done during the same period. It brings together many of the considerations mentioned in my Artist Statement: printmaking, realism, the strangely familiar... The loose "grid" and coloured lines in the foreground are printed directly from a found object - the glue traces on the back of a piece of bathroom wall paneling. So as abstract as the result seems, there's also a "quirky" realism.

Blue Cochrane

This is one of my favorite watercolours. It was done on site, in about 20 minutes. The cut-out look of the clouds is direct homage to Milton Avery, (American).

Blue Mountain

I sometimes use charcoal to get a 'scratchy or dirty' feel to the paint. Here is a great example from my sketchbook.

Urban Design

This is acrylic and collage on plywood panel. Note the comic strip on the left and the yellow advertisements on the right.

I did this while living in the basement of a skid-row apartment.

The urban landscape looks different from a basement window. At night I could see hookers on the corner, plying their trade. The traffic was constant. Sometimes I'd find condoms right outside my window or awaken to the sound of breaking glass.

One advantage of living in the basement was that I regularly used the hallways to work-on my larger paintings. Some of the paintings in the 'Monoprint' series were done in the furnace room there.