From Dark Times Into Light: still life paintings from the past year ~ Opens July 9, 2022

From July 9th, 2022, a loose collection of my paintings from the past eight months will be on exhibit and available for sale at Village Studios in Stratford, Ontario.

If I’ve sometimes questioned why even attempt to paint, especially to paint beautiful things, while the world is calamitous (“am I fiddling while Rome burns?”), I remind myself that painting is both a defiant act of creation in the face of destruction and also a record keeping of these times, both the dark and light.  

The tone of these paintings tracks my changeable mood throughout the past year, sometimes yielding to a hard-to-shake sombreness, and sometimes brightly celebrating the short-lived beauties of the garden.