Canadian Art Preservation Foundation - a donation
Recently, one of my earlier works found a home with the Canadian Art Preservation Foundation. The CAPF seeks to ensure merited artists works and their artifacts can be stored in archival manner so that their legacy can be examined, catalogued, studied and exhibited in the future. You can learn more about them here.
My Neck of the Woods
36” x 24”
Oil on Canvas
Part surrealist mind dérive, part self-serving self-portraiting, this work dances through a thought salad of whimsical forest-scape, anatomical drawing and fleshy sexuality.
It sits quietly, considering it's typical youthful sadness and the loneliness that comes with believing that one has "figured it out".
The work is naive, yet technically robust and somehow feels both weightless and contrived simultaneously. It is an interesting picture to be sure, and one that I enjoyed the journey of creating.
This is an early work of mine, made while I was attending the Emily Carr Institute. Thank you, greatly, to the CAPF for welcoming this piece into the collection.
