Works on Canvas
Most recently I have returned to my roots in abstraction with large scale canvases employing the visual elements I have evolved over time combining my intuitive sensibility of colour and form.
Regarding the titles of the paintings … they are not related to the imagery of the works. I develop them as a separate creation. The idea of titles for my visual art never appealed to me, my art was meant to be solely a visual experience inviting the viewer’s personal interpretation. I didn’t want to force interpretations about the work.
After completing my first painting in undergraduate school it was suggested that I consider a title, and after short contemplation I jokingly said Genesis as it was in a way the beginning. Since then the titles have evolved to become small stories in themselves and I think of them as a side art form. Art writer Kate Regan In her catalogue essay for my touring exhibition WAR STORIES FOR CHILDREN AND ART STORIES FOR ADULTS referred to the titles as “little known art factoids”. I think that is a good description of them.
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BOB, BEING ABLE TO TALK AT LENGTH, FELT IT WAS TIME TO BECOME A VISUAL ARTIST, 2021, 67 x 76 inches
JOSEPH B. EXPERIENCES ALFRED E. IN THE W.C., 2021, 64 x 75 inches
BOB WAS IN CONSTANT FEAR OF THE ART OF THE BOGEYMAN, 2021, 66 x 85 inches
OVERCOME WITH ART R. MUTT EXCHANGES HIS PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR A SKIRT, 2021, 65 x 65 inches
THE LAH-DEE-DAH GIRLS WERE QUITE IMPRESSED WITH ALEXANDER’S WHIRLYGIG, 2020, 65 x 75 inches
WHEN THE FIRST SIGNS OF ARTWRITEIS APPEARED A WISE FEW KNEW THAT THE CULTURAL MOVEMENT WOULD STIFFEN TO A HALT, 2020, 63 x 76 inches
REALIZING THAT THE DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNON WERE A LITTLE MORE SOCIAL THAN HE THOUGHT, YVES PONDERS THE BLUE AT THE END OF HIS PAINT STICK, 2020, 64 x 81 inches
LIFE WAS QUITE FRETFUL FOR THE REMAINING FEW KNOWING THE DEADLY EPIDEMIC OF CULTURAL SLUMBER WAS IN THEIR MIDST, 2020, 64 x 69 inches
BOB SHUDDERED AT THE THOUGHT THAT THE ART POX WAS NEAR, 2020, 64 x 79 inches
THE CULTURAL DOLLIES WERE CLAMOURING FOR THE ANATOMICALLY CORRECT ANDY DOLL, 2020, 67 x 78 inches
Untitled #330, 2019, 70 x 66 inches
Untitled #342, 2019, 73 x 74 inches
Untitled #333, 2019, 73 x 71 inches
