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.

Inspired by industrial technology, this piece suggests a rhythm of velocity industrial rough edged music/ sound. The rhythm of multiple staged bands of colours are orchestrated across the surface create a sinusoidal wave feeling. The passing of time is expressed by a textural surface, typography and signage. In this case I feel the lettering is functional industrial typography… perhaps from a tanker, a ship or jet of some kind.

This piece is a synthesis of two approaches. The “Aeolian” series is an exploration of time through a visual interpretation of music. It is a reference to ancient music chords expressing the cadence of musical scales through the spacing of colour and lines. The rhythm of multiple staged bands of colours are orchestrated across the surface create a sinusoidal wave feeling.

This piece was inspired by a broken interior wall in an abandoned school house on the Expanse townsite in Saskatchewan. Perhaps the venue of a school house and the walls within suggest that much has been seen by the walls. If walls could talk… would this wall speak of world knowledge or classroom antics? Like dandelion seeds to the wind, the Expanse students travelled into the world. What differences did they make in the world. Did they make it better? Did the school do its job? Did the students do theirs?

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

Loosely inspired by industrial elements lost to time. An excavated surface to reveal evidences beneath the surface. The elements on the surface are partially rivet like with all its appropriate hatches and access panels. This piece is partially inspired by the lost Canadian Avro Arrow interceptor. A little bit of rivets from a jet fuselage. Overpainting and repair. A bit of perfection damaged over time.

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’.

The blue was inspired by an industrial electrical panel cover. The painting started as being loosely inspired by the forgotten classroom walls and blackboards… and the desire to create ‘a big blue painting’. The writing is partially graffiti and partially remnants of chalkboard daily instructions by teachers… and partially the play writing of students done with absent teachers…. and the resulting penitent admissions by the classroom pranksters. In the end the artwork became a personal piece with observations and revelations. In fine detail there is quiet writing scribed into the surface which became a a run-on confession of sorts.

This piece was inspired by a broken interior wall in an abandoned school house on the Expanse townsite in Saskatchewan. Perhaps the venue of a school house and the walls within suggest that much has been seen by the walls. If walls could talk… would this wall speak of world knowledge or classroom antics? Like dandelion seeds to the wind, the Expanse students travelled into the world. What differences did they make in the world. Did they make it better? Did the school do its job? Did the students do theirs?

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

The title is from Emerson’s “Go, speed the stars of thought…” Inspired by industrial technology, this piece suggests a rhythm of velocity industrial rough edged music/ sound. The rhythm of multiple staged bands of colours are orchestrated across the surface create a sinusoidal wave feeling. The passing of time is expressed by a textural surface, typography and signage. In this case I feel the lettering is functional industrial typography… perhaps from a tanker, a ship or jet of some kind.

This piece is a synthesis of two approaches. The “Aeolian” series is an exploration of time through a visual interpretation of music. It is a reference to ancient music chords expressing the cadence of musical scales through the spacing of colour and lines. The rhythm of multiple staged bands of colours are orchestrated across the surface create a sinusoidal wave feeling.

Once upon a time shiny and new - full of promise and expectations. Bumps, scratches, dents and then twrinkles. Painted. Overpainted. Adjusted. Repaired. And lost. Inspired by an old quonset shed with repurposed signage or its end walls. Also inspired by the old petroleum signage from when I was a kid. The result is a happenstance graffiti effect. “Hooptedoodle”- a fun sense of bounciness, whimsy and nonsense due to accident and chance.

Muse Gallery - Toronto $7600