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Wall Paintings                                                                

Not Southwark Cathedral, 2007

Based on, but not actually, Southwark Cathedral in London, England.

 

Questionable Foundations, 2008

 

On Display, 2008

 

No Space to Spare, 2007

It's all Buoyant, 2008

 

Adapt, Adapt, 2007

Choral Work, 2006

Singers on stage performing

A Potent Gift,2006

$1500

An allegory of human intelligence. 

The Printer & Zebra Love Story, 2006

A tragic tale of rather silly love.

 

Storm Tossed to Shore, 2007

 

 

The Second Octo-Balloon War, 2005

See the Other Gallery for  the first instalment

Denial is a Form of Acceptance, 2007

Why settle for what you have when you can ignore it?

Sailing the Organic Seas, 2003

My Grandma all ways wanted to know what it would look like if i painted water ... i don't think this is what she had in mind.

On Down the Road, 2003

The painting that led to my current, less blinding palette

 

Windmills, 2006

 

Gouache Octopus, 2003

i love octopus ... and my wife: who else would take this as a present after dating a month.  i have no idea how she was able to keep a straight face.

North of London Bridge - Out of Sight, 2008 North of UBC, 2007

Specifically, looking North from the UBC campus

Futility of Borders, 2007

My View of Prince George from Here, 2000

$500

My Grandpa was part of the geological survey in BC, and his stories left quite an impact

Tectonics, 1997

$75

 

Star Flowers, 2002

My first attempt at Gouache

Chagall Portrait, 1998

$300

Really, more like Emily Carr, but she never did mandolins.  Pity, really: there was a market there!

Sky Under the Dome, 1996

 

An idea that would have made more sense if   i'd painted it now 

Fanciful Sink, 1998

$200

It's a good thing that i don't design things or it would be tricky to even get water some days

The Many Colours of Winter, 1999

Two colours of snow and the first use of disjointed leaves.  Art School has a lot to answer for.

The Tree Room, 2002

Recently purchased by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Flathead's Evening Stretch, 2004

Painting of my hamster doing his wake up routine.

 

[Untitled], 2004

A recently commissioned work -- it's actually bigger than it looks at 1.2 x 1.75 m

 

The Cliffs, 1999

i don't think i could paint a sky without clouds.

The Leaf & Block Motif #2, 1998

$300

Gravity, 2001

$400

A very literal title; exactly how i imagine gravity

Three Trees, 1997

Here's the actual thing: also done in oil.  Bigger and better.  3 by 4 feet.

Three Trees [study], 1997

 

One of my few surviving oil paintings.  This is the study.

[Cityscape], 2005

Gasp!  What an amazing city!

Wedding Invitation, 2005

For my sister's wedding

[Untitled], 2003

This only makes sense if you have worked in the optical industry; sorry everyone else

 

Something Involving Hydraulics, 1997

$300

This painting started with just the left panel.  I like the two tone brown.

 

 

City Hall, 2002

$150

Once the home page image for this site.

Growth on the Floor, 1997

Early experiment with plants and holes in the floor of reality.

Cliffside Flowers, 2005

Just a Jar, 1996

My sister thought i'd bought special clear paint to do the jar and bugged me about it until i gave it to her.

Old Portal, 1999

$200

I can't think what this was supposed to be, but it sure is bright.  Some things need to be worked out, and this was one of them.

Painted Drawing, 1996

$175

Based on some of my stranger drawings.  So much blue you can almost see the fingernails.

Waffle Island, 1997

Once my favourite painting, i painted it watching reruns of Kids in the Hall.  Ah the 90s ...

Gouache Plants, 2003

Gouache on masonite is good ... and bad.

The So-Called Apple Series, 2004-2005

 

The Large & 3D Paintings

The Pile Hallway Polyptych, 1999

$2500 (email for details or to make an offer)

Inspired by the polyptychs of European cathedrals, but with 60% less fat.

The Watery Street, 2003

$2500 (email for details or to make an offer)

The largest single panel painting i've ever done.  Featured at the Works 2003 (About two and a half meters tall)

The Repository by the Coast, 2001

$700

...i would seem to also have a thing for trees ... No psychiatrist in the world will touch me.

[Untitled Door], 1999

$200

There are more of these things, collect 'em all!

[Untitled], 1998

A commission (hint, hint)

The Hidden Octopus, 1998

$250

Find the Octopus, win a prize, feel the love, have some toast, listen to some jazz, look out a window, ...

[Untitled Door], 1998

$200

i think it does have a title, but it was long and had nothing to do with octopus. 

Lake Between the Valley Walls, 1999

$375

The Pyramid Array, 1999

Best Offer

It's big, beautiful and rarely seen: 2 raised panels, 2 tables and one pyramid shaped painting in the middle.

[Untitled Door], 1998

 

        Detail of The View from the Octagonal Balcony, 2000

(E-mail for details and to make an offer)

Eight panels that form an octagonal arrangement, simulating the view off a balcony

 

 

Paintings: Easy to start, hard to finish.  By which I mean, it's easier to keep starting new paintings rather than finishing the ones you just started.  One day I'll finish all these paintings ... Once I get these new ones going ...