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The comparatively easy middle-class lifestyle of my youth demands retrospection.
Having spent extended periods in foreign lands where culture and history are evinced in myriad form, I feel compelled to document our own nascent society.
As privileged newcomers to this Land of Plenty we pay rare attention to our oft unreasonable priorities.
These paintings want to evoke my own perspective as observer; the artist's unavoidable intimate involvement yet apartness from his social environment.
Sifting through snapshot collections of friends and relatives i.e. the important events of my extended family, I have selected typical images representing my Ottawa.
Rendering these scenarios in coloured brush stroke allows me the infamous artist's prerogative.
My reflections through choice of subject and contrived distortion compels the viewer to observe a Canadian sensibility usually relegated to the dresser drawer.
The preciousness of the medium adds the prospect of import to a record of daily life.
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