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Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, it is during my studies at the School of Architecture at McGill University (B Arch ’93) that I developed a love of perspective and color. From there, I have evolved into an artist who favors a more figurative representation, albeit a distilled one.
Presently oscillating between abstract paintings and figurative ones, I am passionate about creating works that affect the viewer in a positive way.
My contemporary artwork generally represent 4 categories: landscapes, live model, sports and dog portraits. It is the freedom of not putting all my energies into one particular look or subject that drives both my execution and direction.
Using mostly photographs which I have taken to inspire and guide me, my paintings are a translation of a moment in time captured by the camera and transformed into a combination of pigments and shapes.
The use of color is very important to me. At times, a very varied selection and great quantity of colors will be used. Other times, I purposefully restrain myself and minimize the number of colors I allow myself to work with.
In applying it I use no lines: it is the color which creates a shape, confined within itself. These dabs of varying hues, large or small, inform the viewer and create the subject. Sometimes, melding the subject into its background, sometimes, becoming a part of the puzzle of colorful pieces which make the painting. Color is emotion and the lyric which can be read in my paintings and drawings. It often strays from the reality which surrounds us: celestial blue hair in a self-portrait or pink trees in a Canadian landscape.
Guided by the words of Pablo Picasso: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”, it is my desire to make works which are my observations of the world around me, interpretations of people, places and things I see, in larger and more abstract formats, a duality of figurative meeting colors meeting energy and movement to achieve the final representation. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, it is during my studies at the School of Architecture at McGill University (B Arch ’93) that I developed a love of perspective and color. From there, I have evolved into an artist who favors a more figurative representation, albeit a distilled one.
Presently oscillating between abstract paintings and figurative ones, I am passionate about creating works that affect the viewer in a positive way.
My contemporary artwork generally represent 4 categories: landscapes, live model, sports and dog portraits. It is the freedom of not putting all my energies into one particular look or subject that drives both my execution and direction.
Using mostly photographs which I have taken to inspire and guide me, my paintings are a translation of a moment in time captured by the camera and transformed into a combination of pigments and shapes.
The use of color is very important to me. At times, a very varied selection and great quantity of colors will be used. Other times, I purposefully restrain myself and minimize the number of colors I allow myself to work with.
In applying it I use no lines: it is the color which creates a shape, confined within itself. These dabs of varying hues, large or small, inform the viewer and create the subject. Sometimes, melding the subject into its background, sometimes, becoming a part of the puzzle of colorful pieces which make the painting. Color is emotion and the lyric which can be read in my paintings and drawings. It often strays from the reality which surrounds us: celestial blue hair in a self-portrait or pink trees in a Canadian landscape.
Guided by the words of Pablo Picasso: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”, it is my desire to make works which are my observations of the world around me, interpretations of people, places and things I see, in larger and more abstract formats, a duality of figurative meeting colors meeting energy and movement to achieve the final representation. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, it is during my studies at the School of Architecture at McGill University (B Arch ’93) that I developed a love of perspective and color. From there, I have evolved into an artist who favors a more figurative representation, albeit a distilled one.
Presently oscillating between abstract paintings and figurative ones, I am passionate about creating works that affect the viewer in a positive way.
My contemporary artwork generally represent 4 categories: landscapes, live model, sports and dog portraits. It is the freedom of not putting all my energies into one particular look or subject that drives both my execution and direction.
Using mostly photographs which I have taken to inspire and guide me, my paintings are a translation of a moment in time captured by the camera and transformed into a combination of pigments and shapes.
The use of color is very important to me. At times, a very varied selection and great quantity of colors will be used. Other times, I purposefully restrain myself and minimize the number of colors I allow myself to work with.
In applying it I use no lines: it is the color which creates a shape, confined within itself. These dabs of varying hues, large or small, inform the viewer and create the subject. Sometimes, melding the subject into its background, sometimes, becoming a part of the puzzle of colorful pieces which make the painting. Color is emotion and the lyric which can be read in my paintings and drawings. It often strays from the reality which surrounds us: celestial blue hair in a self-portrait or pink trees in a Canadian landscape.
Guided by the words of Pablo Picasso: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”, it is my desire to make works which are my observations of the world around me, interpretations of people, places and things I see, in larger and more abstract formats, a duality of figurative meeting colors meeting energy and movement to achieve the final representation. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, it is during my studies at the School of Architecture at McGill University (B Arch ’93) that I developed a love of perspective and color. From there, I have evolved into an artist who favors a more figurative representation, albeit a distilled one.
Presently oscillating between abstract paintings and figurative ones, I am passionate about creating works that affect the viewer in a positive way.
My contemporary artwork generally represent 4 categories: landscapes, live model, sports and dog portraits. It is the freedom of not putting all my energies into one particular look or subject that drives both my execution and direction.
Using mostly photographs which I have taken to inspire and guide me, my paintings are a translation of a moment in time captured by the camera and transformed into a combination of pigments and shapes.
The use of color is very important to me. At times, a very varied selection and great quantity of colors will be used. Other times, I purposefully restrain myself and minimize the number of colors I allow myself to work with.
In applying it I use no lines: it is the color which creates a shape, confined within itself. These dabs of varying hues, large or small, inform the viewer and create the subject. Sometimes, melding the subject into its background, sometimes, becoming a part of the puzzle of colorful pieces which make the painting. Color is emotion and the lyric which can be read in my paintings and drawings. It often strays from the reality which surrounds us: celestial blue hair in a self-portrait or pink trees in a Canadian landscape.
Guided by the words of Pablo Picasso: “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”, it is my desire to make works which are my observations of the world around me, interpretations of people, places and things I see, in larger and more abstract formats, a duality of figurative meeting colors meeting energy and movement to achieve the final representation.
