Ottawa Citizen Web Page, 2018

From an Ottawa Citizen web page about the CFAP G7 exhibition at the Canadian War Museum. Here I am during my CFAP G7 deployment on HMCS Halifax in 2015. You'll find a Vimeo link to the video I made about the experience, The View From Point Pleasant, deeper in the blog.

Everest, 2025, 4:37, experimental boxing documentary, screened at Antimatter, Victoria B.C., October 23, 2025, photo by Dave Johnson

Everest is an experimental boxing documentary. The work is structured as a series of four fights. The fights are introduced by a commentator, followed by a spotlight on boxers, then three or four bouts until finally, Everest, the fight of the century. The work is constructed from a found black and white 16mm, non-theatrical circulating film from the 1940’s? An 800 ft. film with a cartoon, girl singer and three short documentary subjects which might have been shown in pre-television days in a community hall. The fight segment of the film was cut into one-foot sections which were scraped, scratched, misted and splattered, imagery of boxing injury, then reassembled with a commentator, the girl singer from the first film segment and cut together out of sequence in a rhythmic way to make an experimental boxing documentary.

A Sure Sign of Prosperity in 2024 when Bruce Barber Photographs a Containership at Black Rock Beach, J, and V versions, 2025

A Sure Sign of Prosperity in 2024 when Bruce Barber Photographs a Containership at Black Rock Beach, two versions, J version, 20 x 38 cms, oil paint and linoleum on vintage plywood and V version, 26 x 45 cms, oil paint on plywood, framed in a hand made frame constructed from a found vintage gold leaf Egyptian frame.The works are based on a photograph of Black Rock Beach (2024) by Bruce Barber and is name checked from my, A Sure Sign of Prosperity in 1984 when the Giant Containership Atlantic Companion Calls on Halifax, 1984, private collection.

Black Rock Beach with Lightning, for Benjamin Chee Chee, 22 x 40 cms, oil paint on plywood

An evolution of the Bruce Barber/Black Rock beach set. It is in homage to the artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977) who died in despair in the cells of the old Ottawa police station, where the Ottawa Art Gallery now stands.

 

Sambro Fog Cannon, 27 x 32 cms, oil sketch on plywood in hand painted vintage frame

The Sambro fog cannon is mentioned in a 19th century navigation guide to the Nova Scotia coast.

 

Not A Still Life, Ottawa Sun, February 4, 1997

 The work on the wall is Fast New Steamer to America, collection Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

The Forks, 98/24. 2024, subscribed "The Grid", 32" x 38", mixed media work on plywood

The Forks is the final work in both the overhead view and Railway Lands sequences. The first overhead view works were done in Montreal c. 1989 and Railway Lands began when I was an artist in residence at Struts Artist Run in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1998. The picture represents the sacred place they call the Forks in Winnipeg. The place is called Niizhoziibean in Ojibwe. It means the two rivers. I chose this place for the last Railway Lands work, because a railway line runs through it.