After The Deluge: Still Standing - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic Ricepaper on Cherry Panel
23x32 inches
Iron stained, homey, homely
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
After The Deluge: Still Standing - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic Ricepaper on Cherry Panel
23x32 inches
Well lived-in, well used
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
After The Deluge: Still Standing - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic Ricepaper on Cherry Panel
23x32 inches
Fragile and organic?
That would be those it protects.
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
That would be those it protects.
From The ReSourced Series
In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: Ripples - Detail
2015
Bitumen and Encaustic on Reclaimed Garage Floorboard
13x12 inches
After the Initial impulse,
All we can do is watch
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
All we can do is watch
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: Ripples - Detail
2015
Bitumen and Encaustic on Reclaimed Garage Floorboard
13x12 inches
As the waves of consequence expand and disperse
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: HereFordHerd - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic, Raw Canvas and Kitchen String on Mahogany Panel
60x40 inches
There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: HereFordHerd - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic, Raw Canvas and Kitchen String on Mahogany Panel
60x40 inches
There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: HereFordHerd - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic, Raw Canvas and Kitchen String on Mahogany Panel
60x40 inches
There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: HereFordHerd - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic, Raw Canvas and Kitchen String on Mahogany Panel
60x40 inches
There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
ReSourced: HereFordHerd - Detail
2015
Bitumen, Encaustic, Raw Canvas and Kitchen String on Mahogany Panel
60x40 inches
There is a force that keeps them together
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
There is a force that makes them move.
The driven and the drivers
Harvesting that what they need.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
Resourced: Cultivated - detail
2015
Bitumen, Canvas, Kitchen String and Encaustic on Reclaimed Garage Floorboard
12x12 inches
A storm approaches,
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
Resourced: Cultivated - detail
2015
Bitumen, Canvas, Kitchen String and Encaustic on Reclaimed Garage Floorboard
12x12 inches
Foreboding shadows lengthen, stretching that line
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
Resourced: Cultivated
2015
Bitumen, Canvas, Kitchen String and Encaustic on Reclaimed Garage Floorboard
12x12 inches
A storm approaches,
Foreboding shadows lengthen, stretching that line
The one between needed precipitation and destruction
However, the alternative is dust.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
Foreboding shadows lengthen, stretching that line
The one between needed precipitation and destruction
However, the alternative is dust.
From the ReSourced Series - In the ReSourced Series, I was thinking of an energy, massive but contained. An energy unlocked, like a tricky puzzle. Wrangled, not fully tamed but not completely unleashed.
Westwind: Westwind
2013
Oil and Encaustic on Oak Panel
18x26x2
Yup, its pretty much blown away.
The Island/Westwind pairing
speaks of a prevailing wind;
and not necessarily meaning
an air movement
in a specific direction.
This landscape speaks,
not of a place but a time;
of global uncertainty,
questioning previously unshakeable ground
that we once thought we stood upon,
when we stood upon the earth.
The Island/Westwind pairing
speaks of a prevailing wind;
and not necessarily meaning
an air movement
in a specific direction.
This landscape speaks,
not of a place but a time;
of global uncertainty,
questioning previously unshakeable ground
that we once thought we stood upon,
when we stood upon the earth.
Accumulated Landscape: This Huge Small World That I Survey
2012
Watercolour and Ink Wash on Paper with Okumi Mahogany
48x65x1 inches
Remember that day, the one down at the river?
The sky was everywhere sunshine,
the landscape was immensely wide open,
and the river was Huge.
The afternoon went on forever,
and yet took no time at all.
The vivid colours of childhood
meet vague but ever-present
Calgary colours of Buckskin and Blue.
Scale conforms to the priority of memory
rather than the geometry of Euclid.
Clearly remembered experience
meets vaguely remembered fact.
Solitary and completely engrossing
this small huge world that I survey
The sky was everywhere sunshine,
the landscape was immensely wide open,
and the river was Huge.
The afternoon went on forever,
and yet took no time at all.
The vivid colours of childhood
meet vague but ever-present
Calgary colours of Buckskin and Blue.
Scale conforms to the priority of memory
rather than the geometry of Euclid.
Clearly remembered experience
meets vaguely remembered fact.
Solitary and completely engrossing
this small huge world that I survey
One Warm Line: Highway
2012
Oil and Encaustic on Linen, Canvas and Burlap
24x72x2 inches
One Warm Line
thin,
distinct,
a single warm trace of human activity
At this time of year
frigid brittle asphalt
is a welcome sign.
If you can see the yellow line,
you're probably going to make it
to your distant warm, safe destination.
If not...
Here,
between the flatlands and the mountains
a unique Albertan identity,
possibly even pride.
Its basis,simply our existence in this place.
thin,
distinct,
a single warm trace of human activity
At this time of year
frigid brittle asphalt
is a welcome sign.
If you can see the yellow line,
you're probably going to make it
to your distant warm, safe destination.
If not...
Here,
between the flatlands and the mountains
a unique Albertan identity,
possibly even pride.
Its basis,simply our existence in this place.
Fairly Odd Landscapes: Beneath the Long Grass
2014
Oil, Encaustic and Tapestry on Cherry Panel
48x60x2 inches
Beneath the Long Grass
The mass and the meaning of the land
in a material laden artifact.
Accumulated interwoven layers
secured to the cherry panel with
encaustic medium and oil paint.
A mindset of a realist in
a world filled with energies,
both physical and contemplative.
Where human and natural forces meet
there shall be challenge and synergy
all planted firmly together
in the enduring prairie landscape,
The mass and the meaning of the land
in a material laden artifact.
Accumulated interwoven layers
secured to the cherry panel with
encaustic medium and oil paint.
A mindset of a realist in
a world filled with energies,
both physical and contemplative.
Where human and natural forces meet
there shall be challenge and synergy
all planted firmly together
in the enduring prairie landscape,
ExKathedra: Treewrap
2012
Oil, Burlap, encaustic, lumber stamp exposure on found lumber
12x11x2 inches
Burlap in encaustic, oil paint, lumber stamp exposure, painted encaustic texture on found lumber
12x11inches
From art school artist statement.....
I hide things in plain sight. -
My goal, if anything is to create a scenario
where something does seem to have been made
with a specific purpose;
something that seems like it is all spelled out.
But somewhere within the work I attempt to place
a softly spoken something-else,
a murmured voice from the back of the room,
to raise the suspicion that there may be
an intent here that is not immediately identifiable.
An unexpected depth;
an unexpected connection;
that is something I can say that I am excited about.
12x11inches
From art school artist statement.....
I hide things in plain sight. -
My goal, if anything is to create a scenario
where something does seem to have been made
with a specific purpose;
something that seems like it is all spelled out.
But somewhere within the work I attempt to place
a softly spoken something-else,
a murmured voice from the back of the room,
to raise the suspicion that there may be
an intent here that is not immediately identifiable.
An unexpected depth;
an unexpected connection;
that is something I can say that I am excited about.
ExKathedra: Midnight
2013
Oil, Encaustic on Burlap/Linen/Canvas
72x30x2 inches
Contemplating energy and environment
Layers, transparencies, and a depth of materials.
Encaustic waxes combine with transparent oil paints.
An underlying support of canvas, burlap, and linen interwoven through the work.
Gradually layers move on and off the surface,
In search of a connection between
the way that I sense, and
the way that I come to understand
the natural energies at play in our environments.
Abstracted use of material in layers.
Active grounds interwoven between
surface and substrate.
Centered on a suggestion of landscape or environment
A codependent interchange of energy
between material layers and surface imagery.
Layers, transparencies, and a depth of materials.
Encaustic waxes combine with transparent oil paints.
An underlying support of canvas, burlap, and linen interwoven through the work.
Gradually layers move on and off the surface,
In search of a connection between
the way that I sense, and
the way that I come to understand
the natural energies at play in our environments.
Abstracted use of material in layers.
Active grounds interwoven between
surface and substrate.
Centered on a suggestion of landscape or environment
A codependent interchange of energy
between material layers and surface imagery.