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TRUNKFACES
2014-2018
Trunkface refers to the face "of" the trunk
THE SAANICH SIX
LOCHSIDE
CORDOVA
RYTHYM
INCLINE
SUMMER DREAM
ALLGARD
LOCHSIDE 48”x72” acrylic and oil on linen – was developed by way of site study drawings of the Lochside trail. A site study drawing of a trunk image from Mt. Douglas park was then superimposed over top.
CORDOVA 48”x 72” acrylic and oil on canvas – was developed from drawings worked on from three sites in Cordova Bay. One image superimposed over the other, then the third image superimposed over the other two.
RYTHYM 48”x 72” acrylic on canvas – was developed from a site study drawing near Durrance Lake. It is in a way, a homage to Malevich.
INCLINE 48”x72” acrylic and oil on canvas – was developed from a site study drawing near Durrance Lake. I was standing on a bank looking up.
SUMMER DREAM 48”x72” acrylic and oil on canvas – was developed from a site study drawing near Durrance Lake. I later added the Illustration of the Red Robin after having seen a flock of Robins raiding a holly tree in a snow storm. I had never seen a flock of Robins before. I added the Robin because I felt it made the dream more interesting. I then added the illustration of the Humming Bird to keep the Robin company.
ALLGARD 48”x72” acrylic and oil on canvas – The burgundy bar in Allgard is a method to resolve a structural problem in a certain kind of painting.
I refer to it as a transfer beam.
I lifted it from Matisse's paper cut out named Oceania. I am sure Matisse lifted it from Malevich and I don't know where Malevich got it from. A transfer beam is recognized as an architecture structural method.
It is a horizontal structure that transfers heavy gravity loads from the above structural elements to the below structures.
Of course, in Allgard, loads are not being transferred from top to bottom but from side to side.
THE MADRONA GALLERY
West Coast
32" x 47"
Site Study for Cordova
22" x 29''
Split
12" X 14"
Site Study for Summer Dream
25 "x 34"
Birdknot
31" x 44"
Site Study for Birdknot
26" x 39"
Work from The Madrona is varied. West Coast is a painting done in 1990 which would mark the beginning of what would become Trunkfaces. Site Study for Cordova and Summer Dream are for their respective paintings. Birdknot and Split are both reworked painting /collages from decades gone by, and both use frame as a comment, addressing organic against geometric – soft edges against hard edges.
COAL PINE
Coal Pine is a charcoal drawing on paper, 55’x 84”. I didn’t work on it every day and there were months of contemplation but all in all it took about a year. I used a draw in and erase out process, It was developed from site study drawings on a coal exploration site in the alpine, 40 kilometers south east of Chetwynd B.C. The tree from which the site studies were made no longer exists, it was demolished by the hunt for metallurgical coal.
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