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I put my entire being into that chartreuse sploosh in the middle… may be my best brush mark yet…
A couple of posts ago, I posted “Trajectories II” — this is “Trajectories I” in the collection of the Schulich School of Business. A purchase prize, from when I was doing my MFA at York (Toronto).
I am thankful for the people I met at that time. Including profs like @micheldaigneault7980 and @janetajones and also my external advisor @garyevans66
@schulichschool #schulich #schulichmba #yorkuniversity #contemporaryart #painting #magnolia #abstractart #canadianart #artcollector (at Schulich Executive Education Centre)
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For those who noticed the painting in the shadows of my last post — here is Trajectories II, in the clarity of even light!
This is an older piece, made at a time of upheaval, and looking for a way forward.
There is a beautiful magnolia on our street. It makes me think of the rootedness of beauty, home, and loving relationships. I made it during a time of turmoil and change — part of which was living in Toronto to do my MFA, and being away from family a few days a week.
It was a real time of questioning, but also dreaming of deepening connection. I think that time was critical to finding the next steps in my life.
May the Spirit blow through all our branching.
#contemporaryart #magnolia #mfa #yorkuniversitycanada #discernment #oilpainting #abstractart #floralart #canadianart @yorkumfa
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Recently sold this magical piece. A sense of wonder here, and I love the poetry of stairs and hidden corners.
It’s called French Curve.
#gradations #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #surrealismart #dreams #icebergs #staircasedesign #oilonaluminum #rainbows #hamontart #canadianart (at Hamilton, Ontario)
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This is Venice as an iceberg. I’ve never been to Italy, but really want to go… alas Covid. Would love to do a residency or something. Ideas?
This is Saint Mark’s, which is periodically flooded. Sea level rise is bad news for beautiful Venice!
#contemporarypainting #venicepainting #landscapepaintingnow #sealevelrise #environmentalart #oilpainting #canadianart #canadianartdaily (at San Marco, Venecia)
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From this angle, you can see how thin the aluminum is. Another wall from the exhibition in Hamilton. The series is called subMerge.
#soloshow #artshow #exhibitions #contemporarypainting #oilonaluminum #philirish #canadianart #hamontart (at Hamilton, Ontario)
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Video about this large collage! Trying my video skills, lol. Tell me what you think! #painting #collagepainting #installationart #contemporarypainting #hamontart #canadianart #landscape_painting_now #artistvideo #artisttalk (at Redeemer University)
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What a crazy year! Here are my top posts — good art memories, with my Covid-mask selfie right in the centre! — includes some installation art, my TV appearance on ‘Canada’s Landscape Painter’ and a watercolour from the summer canoe trip!
Guess zoom calls didn’t make the grid, lol.
Much to be thankful for, even amid the hard things.
May 2021 bring more of the good, and less of the horrid!
#topnine #philirish #contemporaryartist #oldyear #oilpainting #watercolour #canadianart #maskselfie #grids #artistmemories
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJdzldygTam/?igshid=ma9ui3569bzr
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Details! The close-ups reveal the sensuality of painting. The way I work in layers, playing thick against thin.
#contemporaryart #oilpainting #abstractart #canadianart #closeup #artdetail #oceanart
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJWUVrPgFdn/?igshid=1m8zk7ti4il3j
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Just found this little guy: last of my hockey paintings from years ago!
It’s all about rhythm and speed, and the geometries on the white ice!
DM me if you want to buy it! (Why didn’t I post it 2 weeks ago?).
#oilpainting #hockey #hockeygifts #hockeyart #canadianart #canadianartist #artsport #figurativeart #smallworks #tinypainting
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJEAAIkAcwG/?igshid=yqa4ibpmxrvo
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That blue splash with drips to the right —- so exciting! It was done in white, then glazed over for the blue tint. I love how the layers alternate between control and risk.
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#studioprocess #oilpainting #hamontart #crystals #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #canadianart #abstractedlandscape #canadian_art_daily (at Hamilton, Ontario)
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I love the energy and chaos of my studio! It’s fun to look at this older photo, and see painted sheets on the wall later became collaged paintings! You can flip back through my feed, and see the bits turning up in different artworks!
Swipe to see one of them: Diamond.
#artistwithwork #artistinstudio #artstudio #artist_insta #artiststudio #diamond #contemporaryart #canadianart #collagepainting #oilpainting
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI8gie3gQel/?igshid=1mgrnhsm9vl8
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The forces of geology provide such rich metaphors. Here is Fault Line, where you can feel the heat of transformation, the friction of change. This piece is unusual in the series, in that the top third is one solid piece — but that stability then ruptures into colour and movement.
All of the works I’m posting are part of the exhibition “Significant Collisions” at Redeemer University. Most works are for sale — DM for details.
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#paintingcollage #faultline #landscapeart #abstractlandscape #hamontart #oilpainting #albertoburri #canadianart #landscape_painting_now #canadian_art_daily (at Ancaster, Ontario)
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The studio wall — all are elements from the video. If you want to buy any of the bits, we’ll, they’re pretty cool.
#artistinstudio #cocreateresidency #artstudio #artistselfie #painting #animation #canadianart @otherwisestudios (at Elora, Ontario)
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When the paint starts melting and sliding!
#fire #transformation #art #contemporaryart #cocreateresidency #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #pyro @otherwisestudios @bumarooo #canadianart #videoart (at Guelph, Ontario)
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These flowers are elements for a scene in my #cocreateresidency video project. Though, they make a pretty nice painting in their own right, no?
@otherwisestudios @bumarooo @lorsones #oilpainting #canadianart #videoanimation #botanicalart (at Elora, Ontario)
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This little berg, called “Prow,” is featured on @flatratecontemporary. Check the website to see all the works available for only $200 (link in bio)
#smallartworks #artcollector #contemporaryart #oilpainting #canadianart #iceberg #masking (at Iqaluit, Baffin Island)
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Beautiful!
#Repost @glassrootsnb
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Some new pieces coming from the wood forge this winter slowly but surely.
#2020 #blownglass #woodfired #glassroots
#theartistproject #canadianart #fundystudiotour
#fundytrail #newbrunswick #fundy #glassart
#gaac #gaacanada
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Happy Canada Day! What better way to spend the day than wandering back roads of Grey county and ending up at the final resting place (?) of Tom Thomson… One of Canada’s iconic landscape painters - Adventures on the road with @kelly_out_n_about
#canada #canadaday #canadianart #art #groupofseven #tomthomson #roadtrip #greycountytourism (at Leith)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHGH3ijoGd/?igshid=t3wuzf0v9vz2
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Here’s a drawing of a car or something like a car on a t-shirt.
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#inkdrawing #drawing #linedrawing #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarydrawing #disegno #arte #arteitaliana #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #hamont #canadianart #montrealart #torontoart #vancouverart #wearableart #tshirt #car #automobile #cubism #surrealism #ink
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I was walking around the other day and this image of a woman lying down amongst the trees popped into my head. She was long and thin like a snake and went between and around the trees. This is what I ended up with. Not sure if I’m finished with it yet.
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Ballad of a Thin Girl 2018 oil on canvas 85cm x 120cm
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#oiloncanvas #oilpainting #pittura #painting #pitturaitaliana #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #arte #arteitaliana #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #hamont #torontoart #canadianart #montrealart #vancouverart #primavera #springtime #portrait #recliningnude #landscape #nude #skinny #arthistory
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Here are the last three paintings together.
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Flora 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm each.
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#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #pitturaitaliana #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #arte #arteitaliana #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #hamont #canadianart #montrealart #torontoart #vancouverart #mythology #portrait #triptych #goddess #flora #flowers #persephone #springtime #primavera
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The abundance of spring, of the earth, of life.
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Flora 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm
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#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #hamont #canadianart #torontoart #montrealart #vancouverart #mythology #flora #goddess #forest #portrait #personification #naturespirit #arthistory
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“Deep inside us is a wilderness. We call it the unconscious because we can’t control it fully, so we can’t will to create what we want from it. The collective unconscious is a great wild region where we can get in touch with the source of life.” - Carl Jung.
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The Wilderness 2018 ink on paper 42cm x 60cm
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#inkdrawing #drawing #linedrawing #disegno #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarydrawing #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #canadianart #montrealart #hamont #torontoart #vancouverart #portrait #surrealism #shadow #profile #innerworld #cubism
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This was painted over an older painting. It’s nice to work into paint that’s dry sometimes, to get clean unmixed layers happening. I don’t experience this often because I like to finish a painting as fast as I can. Sometimes I think I’d be better off working in acrylics.
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We are the Forest 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm
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#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #kunst #artcontemporain #nycart #canadianart #torontoart #montrealart #vancouverart #hamont #portrait #mythology #arthistory #daphne #woodnymph #dryad #truenature #forestspirit #trasformation #atonement #persephone #goddess
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Right now I’m pissed off at mosquitos. The one that kept me up all night. The one that’s crushed against the wall right now. Good night mosquito.
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Finger Pointing 2018 ink on paper 42cm x 60cm
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#inkdrawing #drawing #linedrawing #disegno #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarydrawing #artecontemporaneo #arte #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #torontoart #hamont #vancouverart #montrealart #canadianart #portrait #anger #argument #fingerpointing #fuckyou #cubism #pointing #expressionism
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This is a drawing from last week that inspired the painting I posted yesterday. As I was drawing I began to think about the Sphinx although it doesn’t quite come across as one. Maybe next time.
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The Sphinx 2018 ink on paper 42cm x 60cm
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#inkdrawing #inkonpaper #drawing #linedrawing #disegno #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarydrawing #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #canadianart #montrealart #vancouverart #hamont #torontoart #portrait #arthistory #mythology #recliningnude #sphinx
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Everything that grows and dies, the fertility of the earth, life force, the seasons, all-pervading force of nature, the underworld, death and the personification of vegetation.
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The Return of Persephone 2018 oil on canvas 85cm x 120cm
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#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #nycart #canadianart #torontoart #montrealart #vancouverart #hamont #persephone #arthistory #greekmythology #goddess #springtime #fertility #lifeforce #demeter #mothernature
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I was thinking about cutting off my ear but I painted this instead. Must have been all the absinthe I was drinking!
But seriously, it was fun painting this, thick paint, letting go, more about the paint than the subject matter.
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The Pine Tree 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm
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#oiloncanvas #oilpainting #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #modernart #artecontemporanea #arte #arteitaliana #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #vancouverart #montrealart #hamont #nycart #pineta #pinetrees #arthistory #pinecones #impasto #thickpaint #brushstrokes #markmaking #forest #canopy
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The idea behind this painting changed as it went along. Originally I tried to make some people obscured by trees. Now it’s a couple getting frisky in the bushes or trees personified. On another level it could be the two halves of a single person. But it’s not really for me to tell you anyways.
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The Rites of Spring 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm —–
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The symbol of a woman on a bull is ancient, prehistoric. There is the Greek myth of Zeus transforming into a bull and abducting Europa. There’s also the fairytale of the beauty and the beast. You could also say it’s an image of overcoming our animal nature or union with our animal nature/shadow. The thing about symbols is they’re ambiguous and mean what they need to mean at the current moment.——-
Europa 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm——-
#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painter #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #modernart #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #vancouverart #hamont #montrealart #arthistory #portrait #europa #greekmythology #zeus #shapeshifter #bull #transformation #beautyandthebeast
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There was something about the person in the last painting that I liked so I wanted to paint a full portrait of him. When I put the mustache on him it kind of looked like Prince to me. Then I remembered the phrase “prince of painters” and I googled it. There are several old masters referred to as the prince of painters so I went with it. This is my thought process when I paint sometimes.——-
The Prince of Painters 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm.——
#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painter #painting #pittura #pittore #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #modernart #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #vancouverart #hamont #arthistory #prince #portrait #oldmasters #artist
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To dream that you are a pilgrim suggests that you are undergoing a spiritual journey.
To see a pilgrim in your dream represents an aspect of yourself that is striving toward greater understanding of who you are and of the world you live in.- from dreammoods.com——–
Pilgrim on a Pilgrimage 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm. ——–
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These people impaled with paintbrushes. I guess the meaning varies from painting to painting. I’m intending it to work on a symbolic level. Symbolic of deep wounds, pain, but also insight. Symbolic of getting to the heart of something and about trying to paint that. ——-
Three Temporary Triptychs 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm each panel. ——
#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pain #pittura #dipinto #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #modernart #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #hamont #triptych #landscapepainting #landscape #symbolism #expressionism #arthistory #wounds #portrait
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This painting is based on an image from the 1300’s. A medieval manuscript, I think it was Bathsheba. Mine turned into a woman trying to wash away her troubles, her pain and clean her soul. —— Forgiveness 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm. —— #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #modernart #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #arteitaliana #arte #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #hamont #landscape #landscapepainting #portrait #arthistory #bathers #baptism #swimming #river #forgiveness #bathsheba #cleansing
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When the hero slays a monster, he is not literally killing it in the real world, but facing an aspect of the unconscious, such as lust or rage, in order to control that side of his being. The hero stories can be thought of as road maps to successful assimilation of the conscious, rational mind with the unconscious, animal mind.-Davies. ——-
The Painters Problems 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm. ——
#oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #painter #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #modernart #arteitaliana #arte #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #hamont #arthistory #mythology #dragon #hydra #jung #hercules #slaythedragon #innerdemons #monster #consciousness
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Letting go, acceptance, surrendering, giving up control. Sacrificing, waiting, reflecting, accepting paradox . This card is a version of the hanged man tarot card. ——-
Portrait of a Painter 2018 oil on canvas 80 cm x 60 cm. —– #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #painter #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #modernart #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #arteitaliana #arte #artcontemporain #kunst #canadianart #torontoart #hamont #arthistory #portrait #portraitoftheartist #artist #tarot #hangedman #odin #sacrifice #liminal #patience
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For me a painting is a portal into myself, a way to see and feel something in myself I haven’t experienced before. I remember the first time I saw a work by Dali in an encyclopedia when I was 14 or 15 years old. Incredible strangeness and familiarity. I never saw anything like it. It hit me in the gut somewhere. —– Temporary Triptych-The Encounter 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm each. —– #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #modernart #arte #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #artcontemporain #kunst #hamont #canadianart #torontoart #instaart #triptych #arthistory #landscapepainting #mothernature #oldmasters #mythology #forest #nature #goddess
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