Monday, 18 August 2025

Pictures at an exhibition...

 

...in Woodstock Art Gallery, Ontario.  Some excellent works are shown and a few selected from Visual Elements 67 Juried Exhibition.



Kim Wilkie, Metaphysical Blooms, 2024, acrylic paint, 
embroidery yarn on canvas





Gwenda Dieleman, Weighted #1, 2024, collage: graphite drawing, 
paste paper




Lisa Gerrard, Enigma Finale, 2024, acrylic and 
extra heavy gel on canvas




Kim Douglas Harrison, Port Stanley Days, 2024, oil on wood panel




Laura Bydlowska, Blue Valley, 2025, printmaking collage, gouache, 
ink and wood carving on wood substrate




Michael Browse, Crossing, 2025, oil and cold wax medium on canvas




Johnnene Maddison, Grandma's Cellar, 2024, acrylic and 
collage on canvas




Myself, Many Lives of load-bearing, 2025, 
cement, steel nails, embroidery, fabric particles and acrylic paints



Concurrently, two separate exhibitions in the gallery are:


Lyn Carter, The Pinks, 2025, six digital screens with looped animations




Jacquie Poole, Present in the Moment, paintings and other mixed 
media works spanning his career of many years
















Sunday, 10 August 2025

Trajectory on the making of ...

 




Click on the above for the complete article by myself on thesecretdoor.ca.

Thursday, 7 August 2025

Review from Vincent Moleveld of onlinegallery.art

 




For those who are interested in the above review of my artworks, please click on above.


Thursday, 10 July 2025

Museo MODO - The Rules of the Game

 

















The artworks form a series of rare and intense interactions with a group of persons suffering from mental problems.  The occasion-as-exhibition organized by Museo MODO, Mexico City has been an education to viewers like me.  The therapeutic activity demonstrates that Mexico has allocated resources and care to minority sectors like this.  The experience also casts a different shade to a worn image that this country may be portrayed from the outside.

The Rules of the Game – Ludic art of psychiatric patients in confinement from Mar 19 to Aug 24, 2025 at Museo del Objeto del Objeto, Mexico City.















Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Woodstock Art gallery, ON

 

Check out three exhibitions concurrently held in Woodstock Art Gallery, ON in July, 2025 and one with my most recent works - Many Lives of Load-bearing.  Click on the artwork to see more details.






Sunday, 1 June 2025

Casa Luis Barragan

 























Tremendously sensuous, Casa Luis Barragan cannot be fully captured on camera though.  If there is ‘sexy’ architecture, surly this is among the best.  It is also one of the rare modern domestic buildings that are protected on the World Heritage list.





































Friday, 23 May 2025

Gallery Visit, Mexico City

 





Amazing space inside Olivia Foundation, Mexico City with excellent contemporary paintings including those by Sabine Mortiz.


Music: Sly Sky by telecasted.





Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Exhibition Update

 




My latest work: Many Lives of Load-bearing is shown at Gallery 1313, Toronto from May 14-24.  Two outstanding photographic exhibitions are held there at the same time.  Come to see them if possible!

Friday, 2 May 2025

Many Lives of Load-bearing

 













Many Lives of Load-bearing

2025

15x16x37.5cm/6x6.3x14.8in (HxWxD)

Cement, steel nails, embroidery, fabric particles, acrylic paints and epoxy




They appear in groups and are seen in solitude to mark venerable gestures.

Columns rise, hold, and perhaps falter.  They stand with resolve, are built for weight and endurance.  But an objective is not a promise.  Time weathers and purpose eludes with age.  A column's strength may have its fragility foretold.  This work examines the lives of columns as support and symbol - of vitality, permanence, and their flickering existences.

To immense within and let water take over our eyes: it can be poured onto the pod and glide through the crevices to anoint the columns.



Friday, 28 February 2025

Not Necessarily ‘smooth sailing’...


 



Getting the artwork - Lives Beyond Loadbearing thought out and planning on mold-making are difficult.  However, it doesn’t warrant that every stop of the way to completion is challenge free.  Here is a juncture to make amends.

Fingers crossed; there are still processes to face up to including pigment adjustments, cement pouring and assembly. 

Yet, I’m enjoying the work.