Coming shortly:

The last while has been a particularly busy time and it’s hard to believe it’s almost a month since I last wrote.

We have run 5 workshops so far this year and I’ve been teaching at the Ottawa School of Art, both downtown and in Orleans. What’s made it an especially exciting time though, I’m pleased to announce…..is my upcoming exhibition, “The Descendants”, debuting later this month at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans. The opportunity came up faster than expected, so I’ve been busy painting in preparation. There’s nothing like a deadline to focus the mind.

The Descendants is a series of second-generation paintings, flowing directly from previous portrait works of family. I challenged myself to explore different approaches to these images. I saw new paths to be traveled: less a history of time, place and form, and more a resonance of personality.

Does personality reside in form? With altered focus and resolution as well as new scale and medium, these fresh paintings are abstracted, some to a limit of determination. Up close and at distance, I see the people I know and love. What will you see?

Please join me for the vernissage, Sunday March the 23rd, 1:00 to 3:00pm.

Hope to see you there!