Category Archives: Collage

Nereids Ascending

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Nereids Ascending

Acrylic, graphite, collage (2018)

Size:  w 20″ x h 20″

My recent solo show Restoring Balance:  Before and Between (Art Noise Gallery, Kingston Canada — 23 Aug to 20 Sep) featured this work and its companion, Nereids Descending, both completed in July this year.   The gallery (http://www.artnoise.ca/gallery.html) currently is exhibiting A Show of Smalls, featuring the work of over 20 artists, including mine — on through October 18.

Nereids Descending (Detail)

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nereids descending

Acrylic, graphite, collage on canvas (2018, work in progress)

Size:  w 20″ x h 16″

My upcoming solo show at the wonderful music listening space at Art Noise gallery (Tri-Art paints) in Kingston Ontario is titled Restoring Balance:  Before and Between.  Works created using acrylic paint and media plus graphite, collage, pastel on stone, canvas, paper will be displayed.  Please drop in! the exhibit is up 23 August to 20 September 2018.

Fish Flying Home

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Fish Flying Home

Mixed Media — acrylic, graphite, collage, ink (2017)

Size:  w 10″ x h 8″

I finished this piece today for the annual silent auction of the Union Gallery located at Stauffer Library, Queen’s University, Kingston (auction dates: October 14th to November 17th).  The theme this year is Place/Identity.

 

Between Us

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Between Us

Acrylic, graphite, pastel, collage on canvas
Size: h 36″ x w 36″
The inspiration for this painting I owe to the Cucuteni culture circa 4300 BC. Front and back of the same 6-inch terracotta figurine are shown. The original piece resides in the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest. Its precise function and form are not known.

Waterscape with Figures (detail)

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Waterscape with Figures (detail)

Acrylic, graphite, collage
Size: w 24″ x h 23″
I build texture through collage and tracery in acrylic media, and depth through layers of acrylic glazes and scraped paint. I like to blend with my fingers to get the most subtle effects. The mystery at the heart of this work is the pair of figures, like goddesses of myth glimpsed through a waterfall.