Upcoming Exhibition

Slowly getting myself ready for some new/old work to be put on display, details to follow.

Here is a sample: 10 years of sketches made in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood where my studio is located.

Scotty portraits

Here is a new photograph from this week of Scotty, I think this will be for his promo stuff.

I was pretty happy with the way this turned out, I had this image of Scotty under broken glass and that seemed to come together pretty well.

I also wanted to do some water colour paintings:

But the first one came out like I do not know what and there was no time for a third. This doesn't look too much like him but there is a feel here that I am happy with-

I was thinking a bit about the later work of the artist Francesco Clemente who is a damn genius and his portraits are stunning.

Just look at this one of Keith Haring, obviously done in the 80s

Clemente was part of the 80s Village scene, the breadth of his work is inspiring.

Collective Memory II

Collective Memory was a show I had in 2006, images of my personal and work spaces were mirrored with my family's penchant for collecting and saving items of dubious beauty.

Starting in February, I will be building a new installation, at the Jet Fuel. This will be using the "stuff' that has always sat in the basement at the family home and constitutes a life. This idea stems from a series of conversations I have had over the past few years with Daniel Garber, who with his site, culturalmining.com has an interest in aspects of cultural and its language. We have been exchanging ideas ever since I started to take papers, bills and flyers from our basement and posting them to the wall at Jet Fuel. He catches all the subtle nuances of the visual elements and printing quirks of these old documents. Daniel Garber ladies and gentlemen, a real gem.

The large obstacles are how to re-create something that lives on shelves in a basement while being visually interesting and faithful to these objects, how they came to be together and what they mean to those who stored them rather than threw them out.

So, it is an exercise in limiting your ego and letting the wonder of a commodore 64, AFX race tracks and about 3000 other interesting things play off each other.

Collective Memory II, at the Jet Fuel (519 Parliament ST) for the month of February, please come check it out if you are not claustrophobic.

Please check out Daniel's site, culturalmining.com

Cabbagetown Festival

Ok, well with the Yoga Festival wrapped up, that means its time to get ready for the Cabbagetown Art and Crafts sale. My work will not be in the park, mind you, but I think I will put up some of my prints in front of my house for sale as the entrance to my place is a natural red brick walled gallery.

With an ice cream shoppe nearby, an added dimension.

So, if you are in the hood around Sept 11-13th, grab a coffee from Jet Fuel, stop by and say hello.

Oh, also, I am gonna try daily posts for this week which should prove to be interesting as I hope to create new work and exercise every day.

Dream big I guess.

Then tambourine man slides all over the place

Note, images that were on the wall were Stacey Brandford's Roller girls.

Practice continues

things start to get sloppy

Randomly at the Bar

The Cobourg Bar with a broken pencil

February 1st, 2009

At the Cobourg bar on Parliament Street.

These songs go on forever.

The band warms up

These two guys don't look like they are into jazz either

Pre Show jitters

Nicola looks nervous here, I think she was just getting ready.

Sunday Night Jazz, February 1st, 2009.

For the record, I think I hate Jazz. BUt you want a drink that is 5 doors north of the studio on a Sunday night-Its always Jazz on Sundays at the Cobourg. C'est la vie I suppose.

Person on the far left, that is Nicola playing the saxophone. The toque lady must be Natalka.

Marker drawings

Drawings at some impromptu party I was not interested in

I cannot add anything to that

Guy reading the paper at Jet Fuel, March 6th, 2008.

I love this sketchbook, I got it at Muji London in 2006. They don't seem to have the same quality anymore.

March 6th, 2008

This must be Nicola at Jet Fuel.

Lena being emphatic

February 23rd, 2008 continued

The only person I recognize here is Lena on the right.