Working as a visual artist for over twenty years, my previous artistic practice has utilized both sculpture and mixed media painting as I have explored concepts of texture, line and mass in relation to visual aesthetics as well as use of recycled metal and other material, re-fabricated or assembled in order to illuminate old Canadian myths and allow new purpose.

 

Past artistic practice has focused on ghostly otherworldly imagery and surrealistic rural Canadian landscapes sublimely infused with multiple layers of textural deviations and has included approximately 340 mixed media paintings and prints, 24 smaller reclaimed metal assemblages, a number of group and solo shows and one public sculpture – officially mounted in Parkdale in the City of Toronto.

 

Within my paintings and prints, I explore complex variations on texture, color, nuances of form and layering of material to successfully illustrate my ideas and concepts to my viewing audience, Within my sculptures, the process of finding the right materials is as important as the assemblage. I reclaim discarded metal material out of select dig-sites and breathing new life into it as a component within a more complex assemblage.

 

The material links nicely to my overall theme of re-envisioning and building mythological Canadian creatures out of the cast-off metal discards of previous generations of Canadians. I use social media and public shows to build upon my exposure as a Canadian visual artist as well as involving and engaging the public to become part of the creative process through interaction on social media.So make sure you visit me on facebook... lolol

 

My current practice of work continues to focus on both painting and sculpture and I have spent a considerable amount of time preparing models out of metal reclaimed from dig-sites on Northern Ontario farms and homesteads. Within the context of my mixed media painting I am following the same overall theme of pop culture coliding headfirst into conventional mythology and balancing out my sculptural work with clearly defined studies of setting and atmosphere explored through layered color and textural work on larger canvases. As I move forward with these concepts I intend to create a coherent installation combining a series of mixed media paintings which will in turn support my central core sculpted elements.

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