September 19 – October 2, 2024
Visual Space Gallery, 3352 Dunbar Street, Vancouver
Noon – 5 PM daily. Extended hours until 8PM Tuesdays and Fridays

I admire how older ships maintain their dignity, their shapes distorting as they rotate with the tides. For over twenty years, they have been an integral part of my Ships with Windsurfers series, and particularly, my Nocturne series of the waters around Vancouver. At crepuscule, the red glow of the horizon beyond the ships and Vancouver Island makes me ache with nostalgia. At night, ships’ mass blurs into mountain background. Lights glow from tiny cabins, making the ships floating monasteries with tangled cranes a rococo superstructure. Before dawn, in the green-gold gloaming, strengthening light gradually reveals shape and form.

We live in a changing world with shifting weather, melting glaciers, burning forests and depleted seas. I hope that these simple paintings evoke both appreciation of the evanescence of human endeavour and respect for the fragile beauty of our present landscape.