Mixed Media :: Memory Collection

Abstracted shapes from natural world used in digital painting

Sacks of Yesterdays

I start out working with familiar landscape images, in this case, of trees, underbrush and vegetation from around where I live. I extricate from these images the formal qualities I need for my composition — crooked branch becomes a drawn line, a patch of sky a colour field. Out of the layering of branches, root tangles, boulders and scribbles begin to emerge figurative markings with emotive associations. Twigs scrape out an undeciphered babble; bulbous and knotted shapes become the embodiment of feeling. Amorphous forms hover in a luminous, fragile space; others lay down a psychological tattoo.

Exhibition History

Hycroft Gallery, May 3-28, 2009

Plaskett Gallery, Feb 25-Apr 20, 2009

Framework Foundation Purchase for the Vancouver Timeraiser, Sep 25, 2008

Isabella Egan Gallery, Summer Salon, 2008

 

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2008
Mixed media on canvas

Edition of 10
27x27 inches
Framed
$600

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