Nocturne on the streets of Halifax

Five Paintings done at night in Halifax during the Nocturne arts Festival. The paintings are 12"x24" and represent a cold evening painting in the dark on the street. I challenged myself to make six paintings in six hours and this is the result. I have sold one but the remaining 5 are still available for sale.

Nocturne on the streets of Halifax

One night, instead of painting in a warm dry studio, I decided to bring my easel outside into the night and paint 6 paintings in six hours. This is the third one looking down Barrington st.

Halifax`Panorama 2010, 22"x30", watercolor, For Sale. This painting can be seen at the Jackson Drive Through Gallery in the south window of Gus's Pub at the corner of North and Agricola.

Lunenburg,2009 ,acrylic, wood, 2'x3'

Painted before the 2009 summer folk art festival in Lunenburg. Made in a hurry and therefore splashes around in a fun way. Now lives on a wall on the south shore.

Halifax 2009, 4'x2'4", acrylic on wood

Sometimes a painting starts out as a mongrel that is thrown up on the easel for fun. The result is a very loose painting style, carefree because the stakes are low. A great way to paint and I think the result in this painting shows a whimsical slapdash. It's like I let the painting out to play and get its clothes dirty and then I did a little polish and sent it on it's way.
I sold this one at the 21 annual Folk Art Festival in Lunenburg, N.S. to a couple that live in Dartmouth and look out their window at this cityscape. They were happy.

Halifax 2009, 16'x4'5", Acrylic, wood, plastic, Collection AGNS.

This painting was a result of Art Eco childrens art festival. Myself and 50 kids worked on these two paintings. The frame holds all the recycled material and leaves the image clean.

The artist as a young man holding his first Halifax painting that I sold for $35.00 in 1985. The scene is a boat crossing Halifax Harbour in 3d. This was one of a matching pair of paintings and I sold the other one so fast that I have no record of where it went. A few years ago someone said they saw the other one in a living room in Halifax? There are lots of paintings I made that were never photographed and are living somewhere, like kids who left home and never to be heard from again. sigh.