I think of myself as a life long student of art. I have been taking art courses on and off in the community for many years now. I have been a student of Bill Porteous. I have taken courses at the Vancouver Island School of Art since 2022 and recently at the Noah Layne Academy of Realist Art. Admittedly I do not have a style per se or a genre. In my own time I always come back to still life because it is easy to set up right then and there at home and keep the practice.
StatementSome times inspiration, for me, is fleeting. It is the light, colour, pattern and/ or line created by the arrangements of objects I just happen to see out of the corner of my eye. I resist arranging objects to paint. I try to see what is around me and in this instance it is a toaster and dirty kitchen wear by the sink. I was in a rush to get out of the house so I snapped a picture. I knew this arrangement of objects with this light will never happen again unless I painstakingly arranged it myself. I played with the filter on my phone to get this black and white image and painted it.
