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"Double
vision" is a series of small intense paintings done from nature
in acrylic with oil paint superimposed later from the imagination. The outdoor
acrylic painting respects the complexity and specificity of a place and tries
to infuse it with all the physical aspects of the moment - the breeze, the smells,
the sounds. The oil component has a more intense chromatic and textural register
that overlays an emotional, abstracted response. Each layer has its own speed,
its own focus, its own anxiety, and its own happiness. In this way, two ideas
of one place are folded together and sustained at the same time. |
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This
work began last summer in a residency on Toronto Island. Inspired by the gentleness
of the place and season, I decided to return to landscape painting, something
I had loved twenty-five years earlier. They gave me a bicycle and I rode around
the almost-car-free landscape stopping where I chose and using the basket as
my easel. Later I painted at Cherry Beach and the ravines around Glendon. |
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