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Early Works (1996-2000)
I pay homage to my good friend, Mildred Goulden, who is now in her early 80's. She and I used to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and other art venues in and around Southern Ontario in the 1990's. We also used to scandalize restaurant patrons as we snuggled like love birds, just to see the outrage as a 70-year-old and 30-year-old acted like they were on a date.
In a way, we were on a date. We both loved art. She was a long-time painter and I was just a fan. After one long visit to the AGO, we sat in her apartment as she pulled out her oil paints and went to work on a partly-finished sea gull.
She had threatened to try to make me paint after we saw some questionable "abstract" art that day. Foolishly, I had snorted and said, "Even I can do better than that." But, I hadn't touched paints since I was a kid in Grade 2. Well, she shoved some paints, a brush and a canvas book toward me and told me to just experiment with the paint to see how it feels. Much to our surprise, mine especially, a painting of a stream, trees and a split-rail fence appeared.
She still giggles at me 10 years later about that day, but it lit a creative fire in my soul. I had been painting houses for 18 years to that point and had feared anything creative. But from that point, I began to take my faux finishing jobs a lot more seriously and also began painting pictures in my tiny little second floor walkup apartment on Bloor Street West in Toronto.
I did the starving artist thing for four more years, painting and sleeping in my living room in. Painting in the wee hours of the morning is still my preferred time to create, but in 2000, with a new wife and responsibilities, my painting tapered off for nearly five years in Timmins. I had to become a reporter to pay the bills, until my health forced me to retire. So in the winter of 2005, I began painting again in earnest.
Below are some of my early works, many of which have been sold in Toronto. Enjoy and feel free to critique or leave messages, or requests for purchase.
In a way, we were on a date. We both loved art. She was a long-time painter and I was just a fan. After one long visit to the AGO, we sat in her apartment as she pulled out her oil paints and went to work on a partly-finished sea gull.
She had threatened to try to make me paint after we saw some questionable "abstract" art that day. Foolishly, I had snorted and said, "Even I can do better than that." But, I hadn't touched paints since I was a kid in Grade 2. Well, she shoved some paints, a brush and a canvas book toward me and told me to just experiment with the paint to see how it feels. Much to our surprise, mine especially, a painting of a stream, trees and a split-rail fence appeared.
She still giggles at me 10 years later about that day, but it lit a creative fire in my soul. I had been painting houses for 18 years to that point and had feared anything creative. But from that point, I began to take my faux finishing jobs a lot more seriously and also began painting pictures in my tiny little second floor walkup apartment on Bloor Street West in Toronto.
I did the starving artist thing for four more years, painting and sleeping in my living room in. Painting in the wee hours of the morning is still my preferred time to create, but in 2000, with a new wife and responsibilities, my painting tapered off for nearly five years in Timmins. I had to become a reporter to pay the bills, until my health forced me to retire. So in the winter of 2005, I began painting again in earnest.
Below are some of my early works, many of which have been sold in Toronto. Enjoy and feel free to critique or leave messages, or requests for purchase.
Nova Scotia Flashlight My very first painting. Oil on canvas - 12X20 |
Conversion - Oil on canvas 24X36 |
Blazing 12X20 - Oil on canvas |
Dane, Ontario - Oil on canvas |
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