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Air Canada Flight 849

After a visit this past weekend [Easter] to London and, in particular, visits to the White Cube, the Photographers’ Gallery, the I.C.A., the Courthold Gallery, the RCA, and the Tate Modern, the question “what is art?” naturally arose.
Seeing Miroslaw Balka’s installation at the White Cube, on one day, and Henre Matisse’s cut outs on the next day, clarified that conundrum for me!
Some time ago, as an answer to that question, I was told by a friend . . . ” ‘Art’ is my neighbour’s dog.”
Attached, which you might find of interest, or at least amusing, is some of my Air Canada Flight 849 “art”!
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Shapes! Colours! Light!

Fourteen visits (over the course of fifteen years) can’t dampen the visual and visceral paradise I know as San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City!
 
The shapes, the light and the colours are the three central Mexico ingredients that continue to inspire me.
 
Nowhere else can I expect to fill one small sketch with seven distinct, unique and visibly accessible 18th century domes, towers and steeples with their naturally amber, rose, orange and yellow hues forming a delicate palette.  Then throw the sun into the mix . . .  shadows that are deep, rich and lush.  Truly magnificent!
 
Below are some sketches which give homage to the adage … “a picture is worth a thousand words”.
 
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2013, A Travelled Year

2013 was a travelled year imbued with painting, drawing and art education.

Trips to Philadelphia, New York City, London, Brussels, Santa Fe (NM),
Grand Manan (NB), Prince Edward Island and Lancaster (PA), ended with a six
day New Year’s trip to Madrid.  Madrid is one of those beautiful European
cities that is filled with great art, architecture, parks, fountains,
plazas, palaces, theatres, and food!  Six storey buildings are often
crowned with giant stone sculptures of chariots, horses and other works of
glory.

Spain gave the world, amongst many other numeraries, Picasso, Goya,
Velazquez, Gris, Miro and Dali.  Madrid contains vast numbers of their work
in public collections that are simply outstanding.  The Prado, only one of
many galleries and museums which inundate the city, is a gigantic
institution which houses only 17th and 18th century western art!

Madrid was a great way to end 2013 and start 2014!

Attached are a number of paintings which finished 2013, and started
2014, for me.

 

CP-5S9-13-117 12x12 $650

OP-5S9-13-116 24x18 $950

OP-5S9-14-001 24x24 $950

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