olo Show…..Peter Jones Gallery Ottawa On. Fall 1988

Group Show….. Spring 1988 Ottawa Watercolour Society winning Presidents choice and First prize for my 2 entries

Collections….. Ottawa Toronto and I’m sure a few other places of which I have no idea. This information was never passed on to me.

Art Education….. 1985-87 evening classes in drawing and painting at Ottawa School of Art

Experience….worked as a signwriter from early 70’s (1973 to be exact) with experience in all varieties of (pre-computer) commercial signage including billboards and murals. Operated my sign business from 1985 thru 2016

Taught Workshops….. on airbrushing, brush lettering, Gold Leaf, wood carving in Canada, USA and England and have contributed creative and technical articles to several magazines. Have received international recognition and awards and made contributions to the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati Ohio which also features a number of my projects in it’s collection.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My goal in painting and art in general is to express an inner thought or emotion and make this concrete and available to the viewer. In other words to objectify the subjective.

Almost all of my paintings are concepts as opposed to depictions of an event or landscape and as such are impressions expressed as metaphors rather than reality. Considerable effort is spent legitimizing these inventions to forward questions such as where or who am I that I witness this scene or event.

My current technique of using egg tempera and oils in various mixtures, is attributed to extensive reading, and experiments with the materials used by “Old Masters” like the Van Eycks and Albrecht Durer to other more contemporary painters and researchers such as Max Doerner or Daniel Thompson Jr.