20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 In my mind this has a religious connotation, you will be the judge.
19″ x 19″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 SOLD We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometimes the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is ANOTHER one of them.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) I do not really know why I am so preoccupied and concerned about the San Andreas Fault. I just read that geologists predict a big earthquake is coming. So this plate depicts when this earthquake will strike; and I have some very close friends over at that side of the continent…
21″ x 16″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 I made another religious piece I call it: The Seed of Western religion…I hope you could relate to it.
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (SOLD) Many years ago I was holding some clear sand in an oil dram. Sometime I used the sand to cast plaster into it to give some interesting results. (Now you can see into an artistic mind!) Once I’ve opened the dram, in mid April, just look at the sand in it. As I lifted the lid I’ve found the ‘Universe or rather the Milky-way’ at the under side of the lid. Water, that was in the sand, had condensed and frozen at the underside of the lid and made such a beautiful pattern that I could not let it melt away. I run inside into my studio and mixed some plaster and poured over the frozen water droplets on the lid. So I captured the image for future use. (If you look closer you can see the two opening of the oil dram’s, one to dispense the oil, the bigger one or the ‘Earth’ on this plate and the smaller one to let the air coming in as the oil is poured. This is the ‘Moon’ on the plate. You can also see the rim as the lid could be secured to the dram.) I have made a few copies of this ‘wonder’ during the past years…
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 We had a cottage on Gull lake near Minden in the early 80-es. We built it from the ‘forest-up’ as it was a virgin forest before we got it. We spent all of our holidays and weekends for six years to make this ‘home away home’, but when we had twin boys on the way and I asked my wife to stay home to bring the three boys up, we sold our ‘country home’. Interestingly we never felt a loss about it. It was our durability test and it helped to buy our present home. But sometime the images of the view from the balcony come back. This is one of them.
49″W x 12″H – hammered copper mural – 2016 (SOLD)
This was kind of a view from our cottage many-many years ago. If you look closer you will find a constellation also in the sky…
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do.
Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society.
These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’.
Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization.
So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship.
The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view. I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
This sketch was created in the late 80es and early 90es. By then I saw the anomalies of Globalization. So let me outline my thoughts about art and arts-man-ship. The artist is a person who is a more sensitive individual than the general public and can create a visual, literary, musical product, which the general public cannot do. Any art that the artist creates must be a demonstration of the artist emotional, mental and biological framework. As a result of this, every work is a manifestation of the artist’s life at the time when creation took place. So, in my opinion, art shows figuratively the world the artist live in and acts like a barometer registering the actions of the society. These artistic expressions hover between the two ends of creations which are at one end ‘pure beauty’ and at the other end ‘the message’. Artists should express their feelings, visions, and concerns of their time to show these qualms from a different point of view.
I believe a good piece of art is when the audience can extract certain thoughts or feelings from it, which they could use in a beneficial way in their lives. So in my work, specifically in this work, the message is the most important.
20″ dia – raku fired ceramic – 2016
It is a recurring theme for me. I felt many times like this old man, I had high hopes and at the end… I cannot complain. After 40 years of engineering work, which 33 years of it I did at the University of Toronto, finally I am a sculptor…
24″ x 51″ – hammered copper mural – 2016
We were visiting a dear friend at Halifax. It was an unforgettable week due to the host and her friends. One of our site visits was the famous Peggy’s Cove. It is a very interesting view. Nothing else but rocks-on-top-of-rocks. If you were there you know what I am talking about. But … it has its beauty!
At first view I said to myself … this is it? … but then its grandiosity grew on me. Now this is my interpretation of the place and certainly I‘ve combined a few views to have this picture.
It was a very beautiful sunny day and I ‘almost saw’ the outlines of the British island…
I covered the water and the sun with pure silver and aged it with some sulfur; that is the reason why the sea and the settling sun have this golden shine.
18″ x 36″ – oil – 2016
24″ x 48″ – oil on (2) canvas – 2016
This is the way I saw the lighthouse of Peggy’s Cove.
16″ dia. – raku fired ceramic plate – 2016 (SOLD)
20″ x 24″ – oil on canvas – 2016
I hope this picture will not ‘offend’ you.
After I made those two still-lives, ‘Fruit, Flower & 0.357 Magnum’ (which has found a home in Brazil) and the ‘Yellow Tulips, Fruits and a Deadly Threat’, one of my respected artist friends asked me “Paint something beautiful – like just a flower…”
As you know me by-now I need to have something different to show or may not to show anything at all. So, when my wife got a few tulips from her girl friend; and as the petals was falling off of them they revealed their inner sanctity, then I decided to show the ‘sexy reproductive organs’ of a tulip if you allow me to call it as it is.
The delicacy of the stamens and the stigma, the color variation of the petals around them are so beautiful that this is what I wanted to capture. Now I know that is far-far from the beauty of my very much loved and in my opinion the greatest American painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings … but … practice may help.
I just look outside and though the sun is shining but the Hg shows – 15C, so it is a few more months before I could work in my sculpting studio.
Hold warm thoughts, have a few laughs, have a Margarita in your hand and think about those warm summer days that will come.
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD)
We were sitting under these magnificent trees, which are called interestingly – Sea Grape tree. Oh yes we had some very good tequila “1800”.
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD) It was a magnificent sight! The storm went through Cozumel but, we on the shore of the Yucatan peninsula, did not get a drop of it. The sun was just ‘kissing our shore’.
24″ x 18″ – oil on canvas – 2016 Every early morning i was on the beach waiting for the sun to come up. It is magnificent as our planet turned into the view of the sun giving the impression that the sun is rising. The colors are so beautiful that it is almost trashy but … it is breathtaking. So I made this painting as part of my learning experience.
20″ x 16″ – oil on canvas – 2016 This was the sea grape tree we were ‘sunning’ under. The leafs of the tree had ‘all the greens’ as they were soaking up the heat of the sun. I did not get burned…
20″ x 24″ – oil on canvas – 2016 (SOLD)
As you may have noticed I always have to communicate something in my art. I cannot take the chisel, bend a copper sheet or take the brush without knowing what I would like to say.
Now that I had sold the “Flowers, Fruit & 0.357 Magnum”, I made another painting which may also rise your eyebrows.
One of my dear friends was working for an Italian company as the CEO in Mexico in the mid 90es. He was very successful establishing and running the company; he had some 200 people employed. He was living with his family in one of the ‘safe suburb’ of Mexico City in a gated community.
One day when they went home he had found a ‘standing’ revolver bullet on their dining table. For the first sight this bullet is a very insignificant thing by appearance but has a very serious significance. It is a way to indicate a dead threat in Mexico.
Knowing the meaning of this ‘simple warning’ he had sent his wife and two daughters back to Canada within two days and he gave up his position and left Mexico within a month.
Usually one reads this kind of stories in books but this state of affairs had happened to my friend.
Knowing his story I wanted to show the tranquility of the place with bright color of the wall, the white curtain/table-cloth, the calm sea (which cannot be seen from Mexico City) with the large yellow tulips and the fruits and contrasting this idyllic scene with a single standing bullet which after noticing it become the ‘focal point’ of this painting.
24″ x 18″ – oil on canvas – 2016
This was the view of Cozumel where we stayed at the Maya Riviera.
24″W x 20″H – oil on canvas – 2016 It was a hazy day and we were looking over to Maracas Bay which is the one that hardly seen. I was very much impressed by the Cocoa trees on the island. That is the branch that hangs over the top. Our host made some chocletmilk from the freshly ground cocoa. I still feel the taste of that marvelous drink.
24″W x 20″H – oil on canvas – 2016 It was a hazy day and we were standing a few hundred feet above the sea. The closest point of Venezuela is appox. 30km away but we could not even see the horizon, it was so hazy. In the foreground I painted a papaya tree. It was very interesting how the big fruits were hanging on the trunk of the tree. It really have impressed me.
2 X 20″H x 24″W (Overall 20″ x 48″) – oil on canvas – 2016 SOLD
It was late morning when we got there. The sun was behind us and it was breathtaking to stand at the shore and look toward to Canada, some 2000 miles up north. We should all live in a warmer climate…
21″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 This plate you will feel that it is political, but what can I do if nobody talks about the ongoing disaster at the Pacific Ocean. I feel I have to, so I made a plate depicting the taking of the last fish. It will come to this, as Fukushima is spurting uncontrolled radiation into the ocean.
21″ X 21″ – raku fired ceramic – 2016 I think this plate speaks for itself…
19″ dia. – raku fired ceramic – 2016 (refired) SOLD I am concerned that we disturbing too many things as we look for some better… what. We dig up some soldiers at the arctic who died in the Spanish flu in 1918 … to what for… to make a better biological weapon? So that it is why I call this work: Don’t disturb the distant past…
