Today for #tbt , confined chaos , one of my urban garden pieces currently @bugeramathesongallery . This painting of my allotment garden seems timely with it’s garlic scapes and poppies and satellite dishes and exuberance. The gardeners I know are getting excited about seed catalogues and starting plants and planning .
Every year I look in envy at the people who map out their gardens. My gardens always need spaces for their self seeded arugula, poppies, nasturtiums and other welcome survivors.
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It’s another snowy day outside. (Perfect snowman snow) inside the studio we have a fecund forest. It’s kind of steamy in there ,and the leaves are quivering in a slight breeze. What do you see?
This very wet as yet untitled piece is 24x48”
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Installation view of ‘The Heart is a Muscle’ group show @diannawittegallery with my piece ‘studies in line and form-zinnias’ beside a lovely piece by @clynntetz . The piece is from a body of work created from flowers I grew , then arranged and painted from my allotment garden in Toronto. There’s something about that process .... the show includes work by @fionafreemark @leah.rainey @ricbuddy @douglaswalkr and more . Looks fabulous!
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Saturday studio vibe . In for a bit then heading outside to enjoy this glorious sunny winter day .
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Experiments in colour . This time in winter . 16x18” .
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Here’s another urban masquerade piece , family outing , 36x40” from 2007 for #tbt . Seems like such a long time since we could walk with groups friends and family down streets . I look forward to that time again .
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More colour experiments happening. #detail
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Opening today as part of ‘the heart is a muscle’ group show @diannawittegallery . This piece , the Walton 40” is part of the show. You can see the entire exhibit under the gallery’s profile . Looks brilliant, hope to see it in person sometime. Until then , they’ve done a fabulous job of exhibiting it online. Thanks 😍
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#tbt today’s piece from 2015 is from my ‘day 2’ series. The series is playing with the idea of fractured light and incomplete glimpses making full pictures. The incomplete images and day 2 idea started with a train trip I took across Canada . I did drawings and took photos on the train which transformed into paintings like this. This piece ‘transcendence’ is 40x60”
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Trying to capture the sense of snow falling . Changing palates and scales and composition just because. 6x6” and 30x30”
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Jumping back and forth with occasional leaps into the unknown. Studies for bigger things. 6x6, 6x12 and 12x12 . #leapon
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Throw back Thursday for a change . (bonus points for me because I know today’s Thursday... something like a blind squirrel finding a nut) Anyway , this piece , ‘field of diamonds’ is from my urban masquerade series and was created in 2008. I like this series a lot and keep promising to revisit it but continue to get distracted by more urgent ideas I need to paint first.
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I think this piece is finished. It’s too long for any of the expanses in my studio. 30x80” and apparently I had to sacrifice 1 glove , 1 shoe and a pair of pants in it’s creation. Otherwise I’d have to take responsibility for those things myself. The glove , a blue fabric one that I think may be a millennial, was lost on February 1, the same day I painted my shoe and my pants. An irritating hazard of the job .
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Here’s an installation shot of this piece at the #dallalanaschoolofpublichealth along with its cameo appearance in the announcement on mask testing in relation to the spread of air borne particles. Amazing how much work goes into trying to keep everyone safe during this pandemic and how much the understanding of it continues to evolve.
Thank you all for your efforts in helping to slow the spread and keep our most vulnerable people safe. The piece is from my urban garden series that I call ‘where the lines are drawn’ . I gave it that name because of the tension in the attempts to organize the natural environment amidst an urban landscape.
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Jumping around to another format and time of year . This piece , 48x52” currently @diannawittegallery is a late summer piece . I like motion and odd palate of the piece. I also like the variety of marks . More abstract than some , less than others .
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The seasons are switching rapidly in the studio. A few days ago winter , now I’m back to late summer with another winter around the corner. Sometimes time seems to fly. This new one I’m working on is 36x80 . It’s been awhile since I worked on this panoramic orientation. It’s refreshing.
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Winter weather happening outside and coincidentally, happening inside as well . Playing with different colour variations on a small scale. Might be moving on up the scale ladder . (Is there a scale ladder)
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This piece @bugeramathesongallery . It’s so nice to see it again, like visiting an old friend. I like the different volumes of paint, the birdhouses, the lines . So many things I’m happy about with this piece .
It’s a particularly nice reminder on a day when we’ve just gotten 3 cm of snow in an hour. The piece is 54x60 inches . I’m being what I think of as typically Canadian. Imperial/metric measurements, looking at warmer images in a snowstorm or as much as a snow storm as we’ve had in awhile .
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It happened one night .... okay probably one evening. I haven’t seen that movie in a long time.
A lovely sunny morning here today . The piece is 24x24” and drawn from my summer kayaking exploring around the Toronto islands
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A piece from a few years ago. I called this series ‘explorations’. They came about because I was thinking of how when you move through spaces , in this case riding my bike , your mind takes pieces of imagery and assembles them into entire pictures. Fragmented, filtered light and images . I had a camera too but as always with my work , reality is just a departure point for the imagination. This piece is 36x48”
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