Geometric- and Grid-based (Colourist) Abstractions
I also enjoy working with an aesthetic schema that organizes my painting in a pattern broken by loosely or tightly lines that create various shapes, whether into separated fragments of overlapping planes. I think of them in terms of geometrically- and grid-fragmented structures. Sometimes these include separated elements, sometimes just coloured overlays, sometimes more of a presentation grounded in cubism. Pieces in this category are quite eclectic, as are several of the other groups of work categorized on this website. On the more geometrically-defined, overlapping planes, my artistic influences include cubism, the Manitoba painter Bertram Brooker, and the painting of my wonderful high school art teacher at City Park Collegiate in Saskatoon, Tom Wickenden, an articulate, professorial Englishman, who could have comfortably fit into any university art department. The more loosely drawn lined pieces derive their origins from impressions of the work of several contemporary Quebec painters, the impasto style, and the beautiful work of the American painter Jac kephart.
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