GRAPHIC VISION

I enjoyed a memorable autumn drive from Ottawa to Bancroft in northern Ontario. The landscape that stretched before me at one point on that journey, was awe inspiring. From a particular hill top and bend in the road, horizontal bands of brilliant colour filled my eyes with wonder and amazement. For the longest time, I squinted at every landscape and this concept of graphic bands of horizontal colour captured my imagination. I prepared a body of worked titled Graphic Vision at Gallery 121, in Belleville, Ontario. Full sheets of watercolour paper were rolled carefully with brilliant-coloured acrylic paint, ripped to reveal the jagged white edge of the paper and assembled as a collage. White mats and frames completed the graphic look I desired and the show added a bright dimension to dreary Ontario in early spring-time. A number of these paintings now grace the (white) walls of my Florida home. Somehow this graphic interpretation of a northern landscape is right at home in the sunny south.