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Stapling Colour Together, Part 2.
18/03/2024
It has taken me a long time to see the continuity in my work. I guess, I am slow. The roses, the planets, solar winds, planar, lucy’s gift, collage and now stapling colour, they are all round forms of line and colour. So be it spirits, lead...read more
Stapling Colour Together
02/03/2024
Colour Field Peace Photography has left the building. It seems, for a long time now that everyone is a photographer and has a better camera than I do. Why would anyone buy a print when they can steal it off of the internet, shoot it on their iPhone, print it and hang it on their...read more
There Are No Words
15/08/2023
Most friends know that on October 16th, 2020, I was give a TAVR, a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. It was Dr. Cousimano and Dr. Austen, along with an unknown surgeon of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre of Toronto General Hospital, who gave me this new aorta and forever changed my life.Just think of this miracle,...read more
Corso Olio I
10/05/2023
Corso Olio I Finally the studio is warm enough to paint in there. May 10th – That took long...read more
During The Lockdown
09/09/2022
What to do when you can’t leave the property? Now that we are almost free, I can look back at the photographs I created while we were required to remain at home. Making due with whatever you can find. And making something you are proud of....read more
Animating a Scream
08/09/2022
With the change happening in the presentation of new media, I am taking pleasure in animating my photographs, with the help from Christina Humphries @ Rooster Post. It has been a big learing curve working in Premier Pro. Which is why I am very fortunate to be able to turn to Christina for motion in...read more
Alizarin in Crimson
01/02/2022
Alizarin crimson is is one of the best reds. It was used in ancient Egypt, Persia and Pompeii to dye clothes. The lines that form a human shape are the ones we most relate to. An ongoing...read more
Corso: Something to Grab Onto
23/05/2021
Where we live is called “Casa Glicine” or “Wisteria House”. Our house has three gazebos covered with beautiful wisteria. Two are lavender and one is pink. All three have incredible fragrances. The pink one has been guessed to be over 150 years old. No one knows how old the house is, but anyone at city...read more
Lock Down Sculptures
06/07/2020
We were locked down in Italy for 65 Days as of March 10th. Bev could go food shopping with the right paperwork as she has an Italian Driver’s License. I had to stay at the house. There are outside activities to do, so fortunately we were not stuck in an apartment. So, I set my...read more
Sottotitoli, Italian for Subtitles
19/03/2020
Sottotitoli is Italian for subtitles. It makes sense to title this series in Italian as it was shot in Umbria with clay from Deruta. The home of extraordinary Italian pottery. Sottotitoli explain what is going on. They translate the dialogue. Which seems fitting as these were created as backgrounds for a still life idea. Ideas...read more
Buried Plastic
07/03/2020
Motion is Lotion. You can find yourself sitting for extraordinary stretches in front of the computer, editing, retouching, posting. My solution is gardening. It seems like there is always something to rake. One morning after taking down four trees with 3 others and with one very large Lamborghini tractor, as I was clearing the mess,...read more
Solar Wind from the Lunar Series
05/02/2020
The NASA website is one that I go to daily to see a new picture of the heavens. It is incredible. It inspired a series called Solar Wind as these new recordings have been released of the sounds made in space. Quite Incredible. ...read more
Apsides – Big Watercolour
18/12/2019
Experimenting with working with watercolour on a larger scale. ap·sis noun Astronomy plural noun: apsides either of two points on the orbit of a planet or satellite that are nearest to or furthest from the body around which it moves....read more
What of Climate and Privilege – A Measure
08/12/2019
The is the beginning of a project on climate and privilege called “A Measure”. Read the news, Naomi Klein inspire this project when she was in a hospital, which was nearly empty, while a tornado raged outside. Yet she was taken into an operating room without hesitation. Where does this lead? Small watercolour test for...read more
Roses…@ Last
19/06/2019
This is the third summer that I have photographed “Roses” from the garden of our friends in Umbria. This year I have a new direction for colour balancing these images. It is more Mannerist in style remembering the colours in Pontormo’s Deposition in Santa Felicita, Firenze. The first year, I started in awe of their...read more
Rain
28/11/2017
In 1976, I sold a rather large painting to my then photography professor at university. It was 5′ x 7′ and it was about rain at night. I decided to revisit this idea and begin again with preliminary drawings and paintings in oil & graphite on paper in preparation for some larger paintings. More – ...read more
Alchimia Films Inc.
04/04/2017
Alchimia Films Inc. has been our film company since we began directing and shooting TV commercials in 1991. When the business moved away from film, I focused back on my photography. And just when everyone thought they were a photographer, I started back with my drawing and painting. Always swim against the current. My first...read more
Black / White / Hype – 20/24 Polaroid
25/02/2017
Here is a sad story. It is incredible that we are still in this place. In 1990, graphic designer, Del Terrelonge asked me me to go to NYC with him and shoot a story for a book to be presented at an exhibition at Parson School of Design. We took our model from Toronto along...read more
Nebula Triptych
30/01/2017
A new series of photographs printed 42″ x 62″, shot this past January 2017. There are 17 in the series and here is a Triptych of Nebula 2284, 2265 and 2338. See Portfolio I, Nebula....read more
Happy Marriages
05/01/2017
I only just found this negative. I was sure it was lost, but it was hidden in with photos from another project. “Happy Marriages” was shot in Las Vegas in 1988 for a paper promo designed by Taylor Browning. Sadly, our dear friend Scott Taylor passed away the following year of lung cancer. This was...read more
Millennium Stamp Pablum / Canada Post 2000
06/12/2016
Almost 17 years ago I had the pleasure of working on a stamp for Canada Post. Not just any stamp, it was one of the “Millennium Stamps” that commemorated the Canadian invention of Pablum in the previous century. I was asked by the designer, Mark Koudis, to shoot this little girl who lived across the...read more
1stdibs Opening Page
23/11/2016
Thanks to the Curatorial Team who chose Twins Entwined for the Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend in the opening rotation on...read more
Torino, 1949 or 1999?
08/11/2016
In 1999, we made a trip to northern Italy to explore the Barolo region and the differences in the cuisine close to the French border. As always, shooting as we went along. On revisiting my Italy contact sheets, (yes, shot on film) I discovered a few shots that appear timeless and due to the lack...read more
Uccello V
01/11/2016
One of the paintings I had started in April 2016 and left on the easel until I returned to the studio in August has just been framed and is off to a good home. There is nothing like a white shadow box to display work in. See More Uccello at the Oliver Gordon Gallery on...read more
Fuso Fig Tangle
31/10/2016
Fuso is the Italian word for “melted”. It is also the root for for the words Confuso, which translated is “confusion” and also for Fuso Orario which means “time zones”. Each of these words mean a transition is happening. The transition is very present today. We are on the verge of incredible new things. Diesel...read more
Director
28/10/2016
For 22 years, I had the esteemed pleasure of working in film, shooting and directing TV commercials. I met and worked with some of the best talent in the business. It was a honour. David Lean said that “Film was the last great collaborative art.” He was right. You are only as good as the...read more
Assignment / Archive
19/10/2016
Assignment / Archive is not a new section as it was a link to my old website. Now, however, it is full of photographs shot while on assignment for various clients over the years. There is also an award and client list along with a narrative of my years as a photographer / director and...read more
Purple Popsicle / Summer in Tuscany
25/07/2016
A 24″ x 30″ Archival Pigment Print made its way a couple of weeks ago to a new home near Grossetto in Tuscany. Love this shot. Shot 4×5 so every little ice particle is sharp. There are more in the edition, here...read more
Windage I
30/05/2016
Change is good. Sometimes you are ready for it or sometimes not. I wasn’t ready. In hindsight, I think the universe was doing me a favour this time. The wind changed direction and we were to follow it. This is one of my first paintings I made after a very, very long break from that...read more
Liner Notes: Black White No.7
02/05/2016
Probably one of the most interesting aspects of looking at a photograph for a photographer is also knowing the story behind it. It is like Horst’s Mainbocher Corset shot. The ribbon is untied, they haven’t started the commercial shoot for the Mainbocher Co., and the model has her arms up because she is wiping the...read more
Uccello – Picchio
26/04/2016
It is hard to believe that one little woodpecker (picchio in Italian) could decide that he had to get into our house by pecking into and through the hardest of woods, chestnut, in the lintel over our window. Anyway, he succeeded and fortunately he was discovered while working on the roof and given his/her freedom...read more
Yabu Pushelberg / 1stdibs Saturday Shoppers
05/04/2016
Our dear friends, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg are this week’s Saturday Shoppers on 1stdibs. They are intergalactic in their talent and level of taste. Want to make the right choice? Follow their lead. Here they chose one of my photos, “Twins Entwined” that they have had in their personal collection since it was shot...read more
Assistants: Can’t Thank Them Enough
18/01/2016
We have been extraordinarily lucky to have had some of the best assistants one could ever find. I was incredibly lucky to have my wife, Beverly – an art history graduate, help me and she still continues to. The assistants that I have had are now family and I want to thank them each by...read more
Look Back
11/12/2015
After all the years of shooting where you just keep moving on to the next project, I thought it might be time to look through the archive. To see if there were things that I shot that I wasn’t even aware of at the time of their value. Time to revisit the contacts, the film...read more