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Artist Statement:
When I decided to create
artworks on the theme of
global peace and dialogue for
an exhibition in Turkey, I was
launched from painting
landscapes into a new world.
After a month of sketchbook
work and research, black and
white seemed the obvious and
only choice for these images,
so I reluctantly gave up my
sumptuous oil paints.
Two concerns with working in
b/w presented themselves:
firstly, I find b/w rather
stark and cold; additionally,
I don’t like framing that
separates the viewer and the
work, with glass. Drawing on
unprimed canvas solved both of
these issues as raw canvas was
a warm-sepia in tone and
didn’t require glass.
After years of oil painting, I
can achieve a sense of form in
my work. However, my drawing
work has had a flat quality
with which I wanted to
experiment. The technical
issue of achieving structure
became my goal in what had now
become a series in my mind.
Books have a simple structure
that can be manipulated and
were the perfect objects to
work while developing form.
As the days of thought and
scribbled sketches passed, the
next consideration grew: what
message do I want ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions
2009 - The Gibson Cultural
Centre, Alliston, ON -
invitational
2009 – Boxheart Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA – invitational
2007 – Georgian College
Gallery, Barrie, ON – group
2007 – Ars Latina Camina,
State Gallery, Castellon la
Plana, Spain – invitational
2007 - Arts and Letters Club,
Toronto, ON - invitational
2006 - Uluslarasi Sanat
Festivali, Adana, Turkey –
invitational
2006 - ...
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