“Cradled In Light I Love You Forever”, 16”x12” acrylic on board. 2024.
“doing harm”, 2024. 16”x16” acrylic on board. thinking about methods of destruction and defense.
“clumsy” 9'“x12” acrylic on canvas, 2024. a tiny little pathetic.
“cut from the same branch”, 2024. 30”x40” acrylic on canvas. a reworking of a painting i originally did in like 2022— i had never been satisfied with it, but loved the way the underpainting worked with the mountains. i made some edits and then put a pair of Pathetics over it. i love an image that looks like it’s come out of a dream, not just for its absurdity but for its symbolism. it’s interesting how once you break the head off a figure it stops being a figure and starts being an object: the thread of pathos is cut. kind of in the same vein as how a machine becomes an object the moment it breaks.
“Forever Reborn In The Same Place And Time, Standing Still For Your Pleasure.” acrylic on canvas, 24”x36”. 2024. the ceramic figurines coalesced recently into a manifestation of the Pathetic in the most pure form- pathetic as pathos-encouraging, as a mass produced object made for pity and no other purpose. you can put the rest together yourself.
“Portrait of Indulgence 1”, acrylic on board. 2023. 18”x24”. first forays into camp and the pathetic. i love painting satin and i had a lot of fun painting the roast chicken and gimp mask.
"Prodding Me Forward, Forever, The Migraine Behind My Eye And The Prey Animal Panic. acrylic on canvas board, 36”x24”. 2023. i have an anxiety disorder. this is the angel that has my head in the reticle of its sniper rifle when i’m trying to figure out what kind of canned tomatoes i want to buy at the grocery store. i also used to get really, really bad migraines on a semiregular basis, and the epicentre of their pain always lived right behind my left eyeball. i think that’s where this angel is aiming.
“Im Ready To Find True Love Again,” 2023, acrylic on board, 14”x16”ish. last in the series.
“If You Say Something Often Enough It Kind Of Becomes True,” 2023, acrylic on board, maybe 20”x26”? companion piece to the right. like looking into a dream.
“You Can Have It If You Want It. You Just Have To Really Want It.” 2023 acrylic on canvas. the lion statue is from outside the royal palace in stockholm and i like looking at it a lot. this is a phone picture also and will be replaced by something better once i have the time to take better photos.
“self portrait with dog and wrestlers,” 2023, acrylic on masonite panel, 2’x4’ or so. the binder clips are not part of the piece also. i painted this while recovering from surgery and was trying to figure out how to depict how i felt about inheriting a legacy of violence by embracing masculinity. this piece is only considered finished in the short-term; i still want to go in and make changes.
“would that be fucked up or what”, 24”x36”, 2023, acrylic on canvas. inspired, mostly, by how cool snow looks when it has multiple light sources on it.
“diptych”, 2022, 18”x like 24”, acrylic on fibreboard. i found the fibreboard on the sidewalk one day and figured i could slap some gesso onto it and use it, and i was right.
“trying not to think about it”, 12”x16” acrylic on board, 2023. nothing worse than waking up the day after Something, or waking up thinking about Something, or looking out into the sickly winter sunlight and being inexorably reminded about Something. sometimes violence gets done way way after the fact.
“untitled”, 24”x40” or so, acrylic on canvas, 2022. at the time i was obsessed with painting these endless mountain ranges stretching off and becoming foggier and foggier into the horizon. originally it was going to be a series of increasingly larger canvases until i could fill a whole room with endless mountain ranges in the style of van gogh’s water lilies. unfortunately doing that would be prohibitively expensive. the comet is my feelings about it being prohibitively expensive.
“communication”, 24’x30”, acrylic on board, 2022. once again feeling obsessed with the concept of Distance, this time trying to more directly call it out. i love painting the ocean but i’m not good at it.
i genuinely forgot the title i gave this one because it was really over the top, 18”x24”, acrylic on wood panel, 2020. i was having a real magritte moment at the time hence all the orbs. i also really want to go to the grand canyon someday, but not the top of it because i’m afraid of heights. UPDATE: this painting no longer exists and has been painted over because i started not liking it so much.
another mystery title, 30”x24” acrylic on canvas, 2018 or so. i love painting the ocean but i am very bad at it— did i say that already? i like this one but i genuinely have no idea what i was really trying to convey. going to put it in the “distance” pile.
“worm over the desert”, 24”x18”or so, acrylic on panel, 2020. not a great photo, i know, i will take a better one soon. the worms were kind of a spur of the moment type thing where i just started drawing them to learn how to shade cylindrical forms with coloured pencils. and then they became their own thing, as is typical. more orbs!
“holy mountain”, 18”x18”, acrylic on canvas, 2019. really glad i dated this one else i wouldn’t have known when i painted it. it is one of my favourite paintings i’ve done and genuinely gives me little shivers when i look at it. i love the mountains so much- i think i did this after i’d come back from visiting my folks out in calgary and having driven out to banff. big and inhospitable and unforgiving. i love em.
“like a dream”, acrylic on wood panel, 12'“x16”. 2015. one of the oldest paintings i still have sitting around, and one of my favourites. it hangs right above my bed. even though it’s like, not exactly good in a technical sense- a lot of the colours pull when they should push and vice versa- every single person who sees it goes “oh!!” in delight.
“dread”, 10'“x14” acrylic on wood, 2023. who doesn’t hate the feeling of something just out of vision peering back at them?
“intent”, 2023, 18”x24” or so, acrylic on board. violence or embrace, your choice.
“complete regret”, 10”x10”, acrylic on canvas board, 2023. you ever do something so stupid you want your head to explode? yeah
“portrait”, 48”x36”? Big. 2022, acrylic on canvas. i wanted to make something big and i didn’t want to put a person in it. it had been a really long time since i’d painted from reference and i decided to just kind of go for it. my mom phoned me because of the bong on it thinking that i was doing drugs. (i was not doing drugs). i still have the bong. if you’re in the montreal area and want to come get it from me, let me know. UPDATE: i no longer have the bong. it has been adopted by a friend and is, i’m assuming, having a great time.
“happened at beaubien metro”, 18”x24”, acrylic on hardboard panel, 2022. i’m not totally happy with this one yet but i’ve been procrastinating on making the changes i want. this was the first time i kind of unclenched while painting vis a vis total accuracy and it was such a good feeling i wanted to do it a million more times.
no title, 16”x18”, acrylic on canvas, 2019. one of the first mountainscapes i painted, easy to tell because of the lack of atmospheric perspective. i’m a big fan of putting things where you don’t think they belong, in case that’s not yet apparent. i was also experimenting with that nice red underpainting.
“collaboration”, 36”x24”ish, acrylic on canvas, 2022. a terrible photo of this one, sorry, will take a better one soon. it’s a companion piece to “communication” that’s underwater. i love how the deeper you get under the surface the fewer colour wavelengths can penetrate, so by the time you’re way down there everything’s black and white. or just black, on account of it being dark. this was painted on a canvas that had been previously host to not one, not two, but three!! previous paintings, which is why it has that crazy texture on it. i’m partial to it.
“manifestation of an angel”, 24”x36”ish, acrylic on canvas, 2020. i was very excited about the concept of underpainting, which is good, because it made the mountains at the front here look so unbelievably sick. this is also not a very good photo (glare).
there are a few missing from the above that i still need to take good photos of. as for the rest, i’m sticking them in a gallery below (without captions), from most recent to oldest.
