The Finality of Shared Devotion* is an oil painting I made to capture the essence of road side diners and restaurants that seem to exist is some long casual pause of time. Though at first somewhat retro, they are also timelessly current. The slow down, quick stop for...
Art Exhibition Submissions to juried shows are a great way to get art work in front of people. They are often very well attended, and can bring awareness to an artists work that may have been previously overlooked. I love doing them and don’t do them enough. Every...
Art in the Age of Anguish. Where are we? Where we are now. Here we are. I promise you this is a positive message. For as long as I can remember I have struggled with a duality of hope and hopelessness. My childhood was like this. Always looking to the bright side,...
Urban Landscapes have always been one of my favourite things. Since the early days in Vancouver spotting forgotten billboards above derelict warehouses in Chinatown from the once futuristic Sky Train. I've mentioned this before in the context of my billboard painting...
Art today is Coke, McDonald's, Death and Taxes. I'd been painting this one far too long, but just the right amount of time. This is the commemorative edition of the Billboard Painting Urban Landscape. 1974-2024. Gen X wildling. Raised by wolves. Scraped knees. Coke,...
Pontiac GTO - The Judge. I'm a 30 year old pushing 50 GenX early tech adopter artist with a love for those dinosaur mythological things that are disappearing at the rate of a social media photo filter cycle. What? I grew up watching the Brady Bunch and Hawaii 5-0 and...
Abstract art in the age of chaos. Art for sale. Artist for sale. Abstract artists soul for sale. I've been painting for decades. In the early days of getting serious, my primary focus was figurative painting. In an effort to shake things up while preparing for a show,...
Artists Hide intentional meaning in their art. Connect the dots. Hidden messages in oil paintings. Semi-autobiographical portraits of a moment in time for the artist. Easter eggs. I do it regularly in subtle ways. Recently I submitted a piece to the 29th Annual Juried...
Finances for Artists? File under: Things I wish I knew when I was <insert age> Artists shouldn't talk about money. Screw that. Let's go! Or jump straight to the details.... When I was a kid, I got a job so I could buy comic books. And then another one because I...
I decided to submit my oil painting 'Give This to Jack and Alice' to the Oshawa Art Association's 51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa Ontario. Give This to Jack and Alice. Words scrawled on the back of an old family photo. This...