Waegwoltic in the sun. a painting series exhibited at the Waegwoltic club that celebrates summer by the pools

                                                                     Lido pool, acrylic on canvas 42x30"

                                                                    Open swim, acrylic on panel 29x21"

Waegwoltic sailing school, acrylic on panel 25x21"

                                                                Waegwoltic lido pool

 

Waegwoltic open swim

                                              Waegwoltic summer adventure camp boat launch

 

Waegwoltic Sailing camp

 

Waegwoltic Lido 

                                                                A perfect cannonball in the main pool

 Late night swim

                                                         Early morning swim in the Lido

                                                      Greetings from the clubhouse

Folk art festival 2012

Another fun day at the annual Folk art Festival, or as I like to say, outsider art exhibition. I was lucky to have half my collection sold and enjoyed meeting all my old pals. On to the next great art adventure!

Outsider art for the Aug5 Folk art Festival, this Sunday in Lunenburg

Here we are again, getting everything ready for another folk festival. It is a wonderful way to make outsider art, with the cloak of folk on. The goal is to capture a sense of humour and whimsy, like chasing a beautiful butterfly to trap for yoyr collection. Good folk art should be as light as a warm summer breeze and as my old pal Tom used to say, "it should reach out its hand, smile and say" hi, how are you?"

This Sunday the new Mars explorer will be landing on the planet at the same time of the festival, makes sense.

                                                                                          Halifax Shadow box

                                                                                                         Lunenburg

                                                                                                        Titanic 2012

                                                                                                    Canadiana

                                                                                            Lovehorn 2012

                                                                                                        Tugboat

The surrealists Whirlygig, what goes around, comes around

Titanic memorial painting

The Titanic disaster happened 100 years ago this april. This painting is a memorial to the lost souls of the sinking and a metaphor for the follies of man. If only they had a crowd of people on the bow of the ship looking out for danger, they could of avoided disaster.

Halifax 2012 3x6ft, acrylic on wood panel

Halifax 2012 is based on a photograph taken by the famous Halifax photographer Chris Reardon, who hung out the side of a helicopter to capture this scene. Then the image was run through my head, eyes and hands and we came up with this brilliant monster. If a work of art reflects the artist, then it appears I have not grown up as I try to knead childlike cartooning, N.S. folk art Fauvism and Pop into a golden warm, sweet smelling image loaf of our town by the sea..

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