Morning Green

 

Green Morning
....another urban landscape from the late 1980s.....from the same time as the one I posted yesterday.  Acrylic and India Ink on gessoed paper 22 x 30. Oshawa, Ontario.....my way of making friends with a city I didn't like, was to walk everywhere and document everything I saw...

 

There will likely be more this size to be made in the not too distant future....

 

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Tanker, Industrial Landscape

So many years ago now....this image, 'tanker', from the Oshawa harbour....the ground stained and scarred with oil and tar and god knows what. On rainy days the water on the ground was multicolored. Sinister in some aspect, but it also reminded me of a childhood growing up in a refinery town....playing in junkyards with all manner of discarded industry metal. One of the many earlier images that gave rise to current work.

Listed on Etsy, acrylic on canvas

Claiming a City

A long time ago, a move to an industrial city came as a shock. The only way I could make peace with the place was to walk for hours and document with 1000s of photographs. A long series of large works on paper, smaller and larger canvases resulted. The largest canvases were 4 x 5 feet. The images were often broody and gritty (I know and understand gritty), but there was also a searching and longing for 'home'...many of the paintings were of houses.

"Overview", acrylic on canvas, 18" x 22"

Listed on Etsy.