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Studio Sale

Posted by admin on December 1, 2020 in Uncategorized | No Comments

And it’s all affordable! Paintings range in price from $150 to $500 + shipping. Email me for purchase.

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Social Rank Theory

Posted by admin on April 14, 2020 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I’ve been working on a new painting since December and I’m almost done the underpainting. It’s about Rank Theory, which is the psychological theory that when people come together they subconsciously rank each other (and themselves) so that there may be social cohesion within the group. After all, society wouldn’t function if we were all […]

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Caravaggio Died of the Jello Fever

Posted by admin on November 12, 2019 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Pills and Booze, 2019, oil on board, 14×16″ I’m happy to have a work in this show up at the Secret Gallery in Astoria, OR. The gallerists were joking about how ‘yellow fever’ sounds like ‘jello fever’ with an Italian accent and so the idea was born – a show of Caravaggio-inspired food still lives! […]

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Sold!

Posted by admin on November 12, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments
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Hands

Posted by admin on August 4, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Lots of hands drying here. These hands will be available at my solo exhibition ‘The Allegories’ at @wolffgallerypdx in Portland, OR, opening on Sept 6th.#paintinghands#hands#oilsketch#oilpainting#handgesture#allegory#portlandart#artexhibition#artgallery#pdxart#portlandartist#canadianart#wolffgallery#artstudio#narrativepainting

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Medusa

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Medusa sketch, 12×16,” oil on gold leaf canvas, 2019As the story goes, Medusa was a beautiful maiden minding her own business, when along comes Poseidon and rapes her in the temple of Athena. Athena is enraged and transforms Medusa’s hair into snakes and gives her an ugly face that will petrify onlookers. King Polydectes sent […]

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Hand Gestures

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I find hand gestures in art to be fascinating because you can say so much with so little. The first hand study is the Benediction (a Christian blessing) and the second is the Vitarka Mudra (representing the discussion and transmission of Buddha’s teachings). These 5×5” studies on panel are available – $125 for one, $200 […]

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Tnook

Posted by admin on June 7, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

A little commission I did recently. The dog recently passed and the owner cried when she saw my portrait.

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Julio

Posted by admin on May 23, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

WIP: Our friend and old neighbour Julio was murdered by another psycho neighbour who was lusting after Julio’s daughter. Having escaped the Pinochet regime in Chile who ‘disappeared’ people in his family, Julio wasn’t one to take things lying down and voiced his opinions to the pedophile, who later ambushed Julio in the woods and […]

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The Allegory of Depression

Posted by admin on May 23, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I’ve been working on this painting for some time now already and I’m getting near the end. I’m working with walnut oil at this stage now though, so it takes forever for the paint to dry between layers. Still to do is fix up the tonal values a bit, then final colour glazing.

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