Painting Research

60 Painters May 18th to June 19th, 2012 Humber Arts and Media Studios. 300 Birmingham Street, Etobicoke, Ontario Curator’s Statement Little did I realize sitting in that darkened grade 11 classroom that my view of art would change instantaneously. The first slide, a shock to the system, was a splatt

Jack’s Linseed oil Studio Soap, is the best thing I’ve come across yet (and just recently). I’ve tried more expensive, and less expensive, soaps that are just not as good. It is available online or in person at many art supply stores. It’s consistency is salve like and this small bottle for $4 cdn w

  Lesa Moriarity, 1: Framing and hanging as the paintings are progressing. 2: The pile of dry/ing paintings, whew! 3:  Painting nook a few weeks ago. Oil on canvas board, various sizes and frames. Paintings of ‘Patrons’ are piling up. I’m becoming better at glazing and loving it more and more. I tho

The NewArt TV video, on video and found art artist, Marie Lorenz, videographs Lorenz unloading her row boat, re-landing, exploring the 21st century bays around New York. She picks items from the shores and beaches, trash that the river or ocean has landed, and re-states them in the Gallery setting.

Painting; with a brush, abstracting from recognizable forms, working with materials, color, forms, comes in all forms; on my blog Kngwarreye, Moran, Stamp, Marden, Steir, Kandinsky, and Basquiat and now Lewis Irving.  Lewis Irving is 76 years old and a smallish but what is the perfect size gallery,

I caught the William Kurelek retrospective before it ends its’ stay at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Curators Mary Jo Hughes, Tobi Bruce, and Andrew Kear do a terrific job of providing some insight into Kurelek’s world stressed in the subtitle: The Messenger. This intrigues me, because it implies som