Nicolas de Staël: Somewhere Between Abstraction and Figuration
Nicolas de Staël, oil on linen, 135cm X 183cm, 2013 [2013 Throwback] Nicolas de Staël: Somewhere Between Abstraction and FigurationMy love affair with painting began when I was a teen reading the books of Albert Camus in the Folio Gallimard edition.
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Robert Lepage: Russian Dolls of the Spirit
Robert Lepage, oil on linen, 48X42 inches, 2019 Robert Lepage: Russian Dolls of the SpiritTo see a Robert Lepage play is to enter into a vast network of correspondences.
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Réjean Ducharme: Capturing a Desire for Anonymity
Réjean Ducharme, oil on linen, 48X42 inches, 2018. Photo : Guy L’Heureux Réjean Ducharme: Capturing a Desire for Anonymity How does one paint the portrait of a man who, like Réjean Ducharme, fled the public eye as if his life depended on it?
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Richard Wagner: A Profound Cataclysm
Richard Wagner, oil on linen, 48X42 inches, 2018, private collection, UK Richard Wagner: A Profound CataclysmRichard Wagner wanted to do for the human voice what Beethoven had done for instrumental music: to create a profound cataclysm.
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A Commissioned Portrait in the Ancient Tradition
Steve, oil on linen, 2018, private collection, Canada A Commissioned Portrait in the Ancient TraditionA portrait commissioned by a woman as a surprise gift for her husband, and what this has to do with the ancient origins of painting itself.
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Marilyn Monroe: Searching Beyond the Femme Fatale
Marilyn Monroe, oil on linen, 42”X48”, 2018, private collection, Canada Marilyn Monroe: Searching Beyond the Femme FataleWho is the woman behind the femme fatale with blond curls and sensuous curves, a sex symbol desired by millions of glaring eyes, even after her death?
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A Commissioned Portrait Destroyed in Transit?
This is the story of what happened when one of my commissioned portraits was reported “destroyed” by Mexican customs.
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Art and science have different methods but they share profound ties: being curious about the world we live in.
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Where My Van Gogh Portrait Came From (And Where It Ended Up)
Vincent Van Gogh III, oil on linen, 2017 Where My Van Gogh Portrait Came From (And Where It Ended Up)There is a stark contrast between Van Gogh’s red-headed lumberjack face, his rural mannerism and the extraordinary sophistication of his coloured dream world. When I painted him, I wanted to reconcile this duality.
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Anonymous Self-Portraits
Anonymous Self-portrait III, oil on linen, 36″X54″, 2018 Anonymous Self-Portraits“Show me your original face before you were born” asks a Zen master in a koan.A friend sent me this sentence and it has been haunting me for months, like a secret and unflinching calling.
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