Tatterdemalion - ragged in appearance and in a seemingly decayed state - this painting suggests layers of drawing, geometry and partially revealed messages. A flowing floral pattern is quietly present in the surface and surprisingly and subtly reveals itself through incidental lighting.

The cadence of music is visually represented through the multiple staged bands of colour and line that orchestrate across the surface. An ancient feeling is evident through the patina of textural markings throughout the layered surface.

A fun piece where brightly coloured circus-like elements of invention and frivolity seemingly flit around the surface.

A ‘stepping stone’ piece that came out of a year of experimentation.

If walls could talk. “Make Me Proud”. Possibly the last words of encouragement the wall communicated to its students as it sent them out into the world.

A painting about organization. And then the organization is visually redacted - broken, disrupted and obfuscated. It is a cover-up of what went before. A trickster. A bamboozler.

The painting expresses the cadence of music through the spacing - the timing - of colour and lines

In a home renovation when you remove a wall, a trim board or a shelf - old colours are revealed speaking of past histories. The layers of colours describes the occupants. This painting is both a measurement of time and a time capsule.

The painting expresses the cadence of musical scales through the spacing - the timing - of colour and lines. An ancient feeling is evident through the patina of layers and textural markings throughout the surface. Every ‘bar’ of colour represents a corresponding sound. The complicated ‘noisy’ areas are offset by the subtle marks ‘quiet’ areas. Sharp colours and contrasting fine lines evoke quick plucks of sound.

Bold and in your face - but restrained and hidden with something covered over, eradicated and partially seen.

A message of hope, dreams and perseverance. Any previous stage of human history would view today’s technology as magic. Through science and technology we build on the success of others. In our ancestor’s concept - we are living their future with magic.

Differences. On the one side - there is light and bright with a flourish scrolling over the panel. The other side is quiet, subtle and mysterious with elements floating across the panel. Close observation will reveal intimate marks and details within the dusty green and aubergine areas.

Inspired by a parkade post in old Quebec City. Signage has come and gone. The overwriting. The obliterating of communication. The mindless utilitarian obfuscation. The past is history. The future is for deciphering.

In reference to the school room where the students would become educated. The painting suggests a school room blackboard and elements of writing on the board. It also suggests schoolroom antics of drawing on the chalkboard and being erased.

Note: ”Send in the Clowns” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. It had a nicer ring than ’send in the fools’.

This painting takes up a whole wall. The creation of the piece expresses a visual music through the cadence, spacing, and timing of light and dark colour, shape and line.

Inspired by the forgotten classroom walls and blackboards… and the desire to create ‘a big blue painting’. The writing is partially student graffiti and over remnants of teacher’s daily instruction. In the end the artwork became a personal piece with observations and revelations. In fine detail there is a quiet confessions scribed into the surface.

A wall of texture as if from an ancient cantina.

This piece was built on promises. Everything was once shiny and new and full of expectations. Now, used, old and beaten up. Repaired. Obscured. And then lost. Were the promises true?

One child in every class stands out for one reason or another. Sometimes the whiz kid will rise to the occasion and shine through and champion thinking and thought. Or sometimes they will falter and fail. A tribute to trying.

Inspired by industrial technology, this piece suggests a rhythm of velocity and industrial rough edged music and sound. The cadence of music is achieved through the spacing of colour and lines. The passing of time is expressed by a textural surface and lost typography.

The title is from Emerson’s “Go, speed the stars of thought…”

The triptych displays a wall of textures. The fragments suggest the wear and tear of life juxtaposed with the ability to last and persevere. The translucent depths of layers of the encaustic medium bury past iterations of information. Signs of distress, possible repair and irreverant overpainting relay a timeline of use.

This piece fills the space like a chunk of wall.

What advice and philosophy was shared in the presence of the wall?

If the walls were a recording device - it would have witnessed the conversations, hopes, desires and lives that came and went.

The title is a derivative from Claude Debussy - “Music is the silence between the notes”. This painting has a suggestion of heraldry, illuminated lettering and manuscripts. It resides in a medieaval fort in a small village in France. The foundation of the fort has evidences of Roman roadhouse origins.

The colours, patina and distressed elements suggest a ‘lost meaning’ within the artwork. A hidden structural pattern is revealed through an excavation of the encaustic surface suggesting a code or ancient artifacts from the past.

A dirigible zeppelin shape pierces through the striped layers of sound - the cadence of visual music through the spacing, the timing - of colour and lines. Darker or lighter colours suggest large sounds. The contrasting fine lines evoke quick plucks of sound.

I have been thinking a lot about the world we live in today. Communication and scientific advancements are hard fought for. I have been using Zeppelin-like shapes in my artwork. The wireframe suggests science and planning. I often juxtapose two at-odds elements - progress and development is often at odds with what-we-know and opposed with barriers, erasure and obfuscation.

The wear of life exposing past - or lost - communication. The world has lost ancient knowledge over the millennia. I wonder if we are repeating that in present times? My symbols of technology, science and communication are obscured and obfuscated.

Perhaps it looks like old wallpaper, but upon closer observation this piece is very abacus-like in it’s feeling of scorekeeping and tallying. It is a little bit like life with layers of information, science and calculations. It has a discovered past with an obscuring of present facts.

“The Silent” Four obvious strokes of colour are overlaid onto a heavily incised background that has some visual message communication. A second look wWithin the four strokes are very subtle elements of faces and technology - silently observing or communicating.

Life exposing it’s past - or lost - communication. The world has lost ancient knowledge over the millennia. The colours of the Avro Arrow.

This was a test panel for a much larger piece called “YesNo”. I wanted to achieve a solid chunk-o-colour. I organized the art panel so that it is composed by a lightening bolt that reveals a heavily textural area that is a light area with subtle stripes. The encaustic medium is excellent for gnarly textures - and yet achieve smooth lustrous surfaces.

I have been using Zeppelin-like shapes in my artwork. The wireframe suggests science and planning. Scientific progress and development is often opposed barriers of the naysayers. Communication and scientific advancements are hard fought for. In this instance the symbol of science is pushing through a monumental opposition.

Scars of use and neglect are additions to a distressed and chipped blue wall. At first glance it appears vandalized. Further investigation reveals a wireframe zeppelin shape incised into the surface. Mystery is revealed in the background where there is subtle, hidden and partially obscured typographical communication.

A second meaning is created through a double entendre. Perhaps what is obvious isn’t the whole story? At first glance this piece suggests textural calla lillies curling over a heavily worked surface. Upon closer observation, the lillies consist of geometrical and scientific information. The mysterious background has sculptural elements of typography and design which can best be seen through light coming in from an acute angle.

I have been using zeppelin shapes suggesting science and technology. This piece has a feeling of a worn and ragged carnival tent or festival wall. It is all onne big messy circus.

Underneath a relatively festive carnival feeling is the wear of life exposing past - or lost - scientific communication. Th one ring circus seems to sum up the confusion between circus and science

The retro wire-frame zeppelin shapes suggest science and technology. The artwork balances between a festive carefree feeling - and the loss of communication amid the world circus.