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New paintings at Arts on Queen for November.

Art Interiors Blog.

'It Was Her Regular Stop" 30x40 acrylic on canvas

SOLD

Photo Credit: Art Interiors

As seen on Art Interiors blog. 

A Four Season'r Residence

I had a wonderful surprise a few weeks ago while reading Art Interiors blog. A tour of a fabulous Four Season's residence with the work of 13 Art Interiors artists throughout, mine included. When I drop new paintings at a gallery, that's usually the last I see of them, so it's always nice when I spot a photo of my work in it's new setting. It's a nice way to complete the cycle. Read the entire blog post here.

New Urban Landscapes at Canvas Gallery.

I've received quite a few inquiries about new citysapes lately. I'm working diligently on this series and I'm thankful that they are selling just about as fast as I can finish them. Major gratitude here. I did mange to drop three off to Canvas Gallery this past weekend and it's so nice to be featured on the Canvas Gallery blog today. 

 Grab a Taxi

$800.

15x30 acrylic on canvas

available at Canvas Gallery

 One Way

$750.

36x12 acrylic on canvas

available at Canvas Gallery

King West Early Eve

$2500.

36x48 acrylic on canvas

available at Canvas Gallery

After Cityline It's Back to Normal Or Is It?

Well a few months have passed since my art/design segment that I did with Sharon Grech aired on Cityline. The excitement has faded and things have gone back to normal around here. The living space and studio was staged beautifully and cleaned for 'shoot day' and looked absolutely wonderful. A page right out of a magazine. Then reality took over and it hasn't looked the same since.

With my gallery work, as well as the paintings and illustrations I do for posters, there has been a lot of creative chaos on a daily basis. The furniture gets moved out of the way, the dining table is now a work table and there are plenty of canvases in various stages of 'art' all over the place. And yes I get frustrated at the end of the day when I 'should' put things away and tidy up. I need a proper studio. A studio where I can spread out and get messy and not have to worry about putting things away at the end of the day. Until that day comes I'm thinking of moving into the spare room and painting there. Tis will mean working in the same room that now holds the kitty's litter boxes. Hmmmm, I'll keep you posted on how this works out.

Artists Toronto

This past Saturday I received wonderful news. I had passed the jurying and was now part of Artists Toronto. This is a great website that I just happened to surf into one day, and as I looked all through the site I knew I had to be included. It is a directory of artists in Toronto and it connects the artists with art purchasers, corporate art buyers, interior designers and art lovers. "Winter Dusk" is one of the four images on the Artists Toronto site. I painted this from a photograph taken from a balcony seven stories up, in Montreal.

This has been a busy week so far. I'm several paintings into my new series of urban landscapes. These paintings are much larger than the minis I've posted here in the past. I work on a number of paintings at once, so at any given time I might have five or so paintings in different stages spread out throughout my studio space. This can get crazy at times especially when our two cats decide it's time to play.

I'll post the first in the series here shortly.