| 2002 Recent Landscapes of Coast and Canyon, Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2001 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC 2000 John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1998 Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC 1994 Buschlen-Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1993 The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC 1990 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1988 Waddington & Gorce Inc, Montreal, QC 1986 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1985 Waddington & Gorce Inc, Montreal, QC 1983 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1983 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB 1983 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC 1981 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1979 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1977 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1975 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1974 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 1971 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1969 University of Minnesota (Morris) 1967 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 1966 Western Washington State, Bellingham, WA 1962 University of Minnesota |
| Recent Landscapes of Coast and Canyon Landscape has been my primary motif for more than thirty years. In the art of painting, the landscape motif symbolizes the conceptions and feelings people hold in relation to nature. I choose to paint landscape because of my boyhood intimacy with nature and because I believe that the most urgent challenge facing humanity is to discover a viable way to live with nature. My intention is to create visual symbols that articulate a gentler, more reciprocal relationship with nature. I want my paintings to be practical metaphors for a new way of feeling and living in the world. To achieve this, I have set aside traditional “realistic” representation in favor of an imaginative transformation of the landscape motif. Everything is recognizable, and yet nothing conforms to our ordinary perceptions. Trees form articulated patterns. Cliffs are simplified. Three-dimensional space is ambiguous and playful in order to engage and challenge the viewer’s understanding. Everything is designed to participate in an active, abstract structure. The image of nature resembles a wilderness park or garden – a natural world which is cared for and nurtured. This way suggests reverence for life. It arises primarily from the discoveries of science, ranging from new knowledge of the vastness of the universe, to the interconnectedness of all life and the contingencies of the processes of evolution – the accidental nature of our being here at all. |
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