Collection One
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Rapscallion
- No. 4041
- encaustic on panel
- diptych - 183cm x 183cm/ 72” x 72”
- Available
- Muse Gallery - Toronto
Rapscallion - a rascal! This painting suggests layers of obfuscation - and then partially revealed discovery. A scrolling floral pattern is quietly discovered throughout the surface. - subtly revealed through incidental lighting.
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Carnival
- No. 4039
- encaustic on panel
- 122cm x 122cm/ 48” x 48”
- Available
- Muse Gallery - Toronto
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.
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Whiz Kid
- No. 3901
- encaustic diptych
- 183cm x 183cm/ 72” x 72”
- Available
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
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.
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Archimedes's Rodeo
- 4004 & 4005
- mixed media encaustic diptych
- diptych - 114cm x 229cm/ 45” x 90”
- SOLD
A fun piece where brightly coloured circus-like elements of invention and frivolity seemingly flit around the surface.
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YesNo
- No. 3969
- encaustic diptych
- 91cm x 152cm/ 36” x 96”
- SOLD
A ‘stepping stone’ piece that came out of a year of experimentation.
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Make Me Proud
- No. 3895
- encaustic - diptych
- 152cm x 155cm/ 60” x 61”
- SOLD
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.
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Fantasyland
- No. 3999
- mixed media encaustic triptych
- 61cm x 213cm/ 24" x 84”
- Available
- Muse Gallery - Toronto
The painting expresses the cadence of music through the spacing - the timing - of colour and lines
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Pretend
- No. 3996
- mixed media encaustic
- diptych - 76 x 185cm/ 30” x 73”
- Available $4800
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
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.
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Merry-Go-Round
- No. 4006
- encaustic triptych
- 107cm x 320cm/ 42” x 126”
- SOLD
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.
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Drama Queen
- No. 3974
- mixed media encaustic
- 152cm x 152cm/ 60” x 60” - diptych
- Available
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
Bold and in your face - but restrained and hidden with something covered over, eradicated and partially seen.
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Spitfire
- No. 3994
- mixed media encaustic
- 76cm x 198cm/ 30” x 78” - diptych
- Available
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
Zeppelin-like wireframe shapes - symbols of science and knowledge - are presenting themselves in my recent artwork. Fragments of knowledge - buried, hidden and obfuscated - are revealed through partially excavated layers.
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Plotting Against Gravity
- No. 3990
- mixed media
- 68.5cm x 152cm/ 27” x 60”
- Available
- Gibson Fine Art - Calgary
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.
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Squirl & Mimsy
- No. 3995
- mixed media encaustic
- diptych - 61cm x 152cm/ 24" x 60"
- Available
- Butter Gallery - Collingwood
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.
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Certainty of History
- No. 3894
- encaustic diptych
- 152cm x 152cm/ 60” x 60”
- Available
- Muse Gallery – Toronto
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.
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Send in the Clowns
- No. 3897
- encaustic diptych
- 42” x 80/ 107cm x 203cm
- Available
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
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’.
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Carousel
- No. 4037
- encaustic diptych
- 152cm x 229cm/ 60” x 90”
- Available $12900
- Studio
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.
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Trust Worthy
- No. 3900
- encaustic diptych
- 183cm x 183cm/ 72” x 72”
- SOLD
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.
Collection Two
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Vigil Oracle
- No. 3785
- encaustic triptych
- 201cm x 152cm / 79” x 60”
- Available $10,250
- Muse Gallery – Toronto
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.
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Be True. Courageous. Strong. Don't Lie.
- No 3821
- encaustic diptych
- 152cm x 155cm/ 60” x 61”
- SOLD
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.
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Sovereign
- No. 3847
- encaustic diptych
- 91cm x 152cm/ 36” x 60”
- Available $4650
- Gibson Fine Art – Calgary
The leftover and forgotten. A decorative flourish - as can be found on illuminated texts, embroidery, carpets and tapestries - is buried into the panel. The overpainting of this decoration disregards the past. Perhaps the obliteration was symbolic as if to physically remove or hide the past.
Gibson Fine Art - Calgary $4550
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Bohemia Terra
- No. 3695
- encaustic - diptych
- 117cm x 175cm/ 46” x 69”
- Available
- Butter Gallery - Collingwood
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.
Collection Three
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Sprite Flight
- No. 4036
- encaustic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- SOLD
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.
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Headwind
- No. 3953
- mixed media
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12" x 12"
- SOLD
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.
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Carnival Contraption
- No. 4028
- mixed media encaustic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- SOLD
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.
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Cipher Chunk
- No. 4024
- mixed media acrylic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- SOLD
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.
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Pallisade Run
- No. 3959
- mixed media
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12" x 12"
- Available
- Muse Gallery – Toronto
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.
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Flight to Persepolis
- No. 3980
- mixed media
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12" x 12"
- SOLD
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.
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Relic Circus
- No. 4026
- mixed media encaustic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- SOLD
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.
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One Ring Circus
- No. 4030
- mixed media acrylic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- SOLD
- Butter Gallery - Collingwood
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
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Aero Circus
- No. 4031
- mixed media acrylic
- 30.5cm x 30.5cm/ 12” x 12”
- Available
- Butter Gallery - Collingwood
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.
