Artist
All paintings are on gallery canvasses, with finished sides,wired and ready to hang.
Contact me if you would like a private viewing: 416-462-2748 or Contact me via email.
Mikreations Art & Frame Gallery
RR#2
1582 Niagara Stone Road
Niaigara-on-the-Lake (Ongoing)
Telling human stories without using any human figures – just emotion – is a challenge, but fun and exciting as well.
In this new series, I am limiting myself to four colours – crimson, red, orange and brown. To me this adds to the drama and vitality of the pieces. I mix everything right on the canvas and use a wide brush and palette knife to create the effect.
or 416-462-2748
Across A Crowded Room
After Work
Alone Time •
Amen
Amused
And Then, They Dance
And Then, They Laugh
And Then, They Protest •
And Then, They Sing
And Then, They Spoon
And Then, They Weep
A New Day •
Angel In Black
Angel In The Wind
Angel In Waiting
Angel Innocence
Angel Moment
Angel Next Door
Angel of Joy •
Angel On The Edge
Angel Plea •
Angel Sensation •
Angel Smile
Angel Souvenir
Angel Unaware •
Angel Wish •
A Promise •
Back Off •
Bittersweet
Blue Tiger •
Boardwalk •
Bored Meeting •
Boy Flying Kite
Busker •
Calm
Candy Keyboard •
Christmas Angel
Cold
Comfort •
Compassion
Contact Lens
Dance of Joy
Daring To Be
Dawn To Dusk •
Delight
Distracted
Dizzy •
Don't Burst My Bubble •
Dress Up •
Earth Angel •
Every Day Angel
Expectant Angel
Fear And Fury
Festival •
Flight •
Flirt
Floating Dreams
Flower Child
Fluid
Forgotten Angel
Forsaken
Free
Friends •
Full Moon Rising
Gardener
Girl Flying Kite •
Girl In A Blue Hat
Girl In A Green Hat •
Glorious And Free •
Good Cheer
Good Read
Growing Into It
Guardian Angel
Happy Day
Happy Hour •
Healing •
Hear No Evil •
Heart To Heart
Heat Of The Night
Hide And Seek •
Honeymoon
I Can You Can •
Ice Cream Truck •
I Dream, Therefore I am
Illumination
In Agreement
In My Dreams
In The Moment •
In The Still Of The Night •
In The Zone
Irrepressible
I Wish I Could Fly •
Just A Breath Away
Kicks Up Her Heels
Lady And The Boots •
Last Dance
Leaf 1 •
Leaf 2 •
Leaf 3 •
Leaf 4 •
Leaf 5 •
Leaf 6 •
Letting Go •
Life Maker •
Light Giver •
Lily 1 •
Lily 2 •
Lily 3 •
Lily 4 •
Lily 5 •
Lily 6 •
Lily B2 •
Little Chick •
Lost And Found
Lunch
Maple Leaf B4 •
Maybe Tomorrow
Mellow •
Minuet in G •
Moments 1 •
Moments 3
Moments 4
Moments 5 •
Moments 7
Moments 10
Moments 14
Moments 15 •
Moments 16
Moments 17
Moving On
Mystic Morning •
My Tulip
My Turn •
Nature's Confetti
Neighbourhood Watch
Networking
Nostalgia
Of A Feather
On A Mission
Open Arms •
O Tannenbaum
One Perfect Moment •
Passion •
Passion, Love and Underlying Sadness
Patience
Pause •
Peaches And Cream •
Peek-A-Boo •
Pensive Angel •
Praise •
Puffin Family •
Puffin Parade •
Red Flower •
Refuge •
Resilient
Rise and Shine •
Sated
See No Evil •
Serenity
Shelter
Shopping •
Side By Side
Singing The Blues
Sisters
Sitting Pretty
Solitude •
Sorry •
Soul Keeper •
Speak No Evil •
Standing Together
Street Corner •
Street Music Encore
Summer Job
Sunday Afternoon •
Sunflower
Sunset •
Tales
Tall Lillies
The Apology
The Blues
The Dance
The Iridescent Mountains •
The King •
The Kiss •
The Kiss #2
The Plea •
The Prayer
The Secret •
The Gathering
The Vows
Ticklish •
Together And Apart •
Truth
Under An Umbrella
Unlikely Angel •
Visions Of Sugar Plums
Wave Watching •
Weight Watchers
Where'd He Go? •
Whisper
Why Me? •
Wind In The Wheatfield
Wonder
You Can't Be Serious •
I am fascinated with the human story that each of us is living – sometimes unrecognized, often untold, but always significant.
This year I started pushing past the earlier representational boundaries I had set, to use broader strokes with a wide brush or palette knife and fewer obviously human figures, while intensifying human presence and emotion. Here I use a very warm colour palette to portray passion for those who view them.
This approach made people stop and take notice. Many saw these paintings as three dimensional – peering closely down the side or squatting on the floor to study them from below.
The frame-within-a-frame offers a window into the private lives of my subjects; removing background information focusses the viewer on a single moment. Part of the scene breaks out of the frame, suggesting that there is more to the story than we can see. Maybe this is why several people reacted emotionally, reminded of something in their own stories.
Do angels walk among us? Or are angelic qualities just at work in those around us, even those from whom we expect very little or even fear?
What if we saw teenagers as full of promise, the elderly as treasurers of experience and insight, the stranger as more than simply sinister, and the homeless as people who share freely what they have?
I think the answer may have us seeing angels everywhere.
I have been painting for over 30 years. Despite the urgings of those around me, I refused to sell my work, keeping it as my own private world – a source of amusement and inner therapy.
In November of 2004, however, I finally opened my studio for a weekend show. The subject matter was varied: the common threads of what I first offered for sale were whimsy, a quirky sense of humour and bold/vibrant colours. I sold 12 paintings that weekend, convincing me to keep going – and these paintings still make me proud.