Acrylic Paintings
Walking Memory:
2ft/2ft Acrylic Painting on Canvas
My painting is titled “Walking Memory” and it is the combination of ten years’ worth of photos of every angle around the pond I grew up with. Leverett Pond is a location that I have a thousand memories of its where I would walk and think on every moment and decision of life. And all of those memories get warped and combined, flowing into and reflecting one another. Water holds memory in reflections. Building a new location that represents my experience of that place, not the true geographical features. Buildings on opposite sides are together, night, day and sunset coexist as one entity. As the me of the past, the me now and me of tomorrow exist as one.
Skills Developed:
Made quickly and with purpose
Color balancing
Surrealism
Screen Memory:
2ft/2ft Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Another Work Connected with Walking memory
I moved away from my family in the United States, to study in Toronto and be closer with my sister, it was a large change in life. My father has been working elsewhere and has been sending photos of places he's been and what he's been doing to me and the rest of the family. He is making memories, capturing them with the camera lens, and sharing small snippets with me. All of those moments and memories are created in my mind by looking at my phone. Some Ideas we discussed in class were how a place has an impact on art and how artists engage with the place and land around them. I work with painting landscapes, this is a practice that is intimately tied with place, location imagined or real is the subject of my art. In my separation though the removal of context from place interested me. In all the photos my dad sent, the scene is beautiful, but I miss the journey, the return home after only that moment of the camera flash. A lot of paintings and art pieces in galleries are like a single point to observe and move forward. All of these photos become memories for me of seeing them together, all these places and times mesh together and become one. The human mind loves patterns and to make sense of what it can't understand. While I obviously know these are different places and I know what photos are. I also recognize and group these memories together. They are where my dad has been since I last saw him. To push those thoughts forward I combined all the images into a single landscape to reference for a painting. No longer a single snapshot but a connection across space and time. My art reflects on ideas of memory, the creation and combination of them as well as the absence of making them with family when apart. Can you be nostalgic for somewhere you have never been, music you haven't heard before, or art you just saw? My painting is about the intertwining of memories when you can only see them from those far away.
Skills Developed:
Image crafting
Surrealism
Function Room:
40in/30in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
I work with themes of Solitude, Isolation, Memory, and Liminalatiy. I use Acrylic to paint photographs I've taken of the places people often don't look at, and I focus on capturing emotional realism. Whether that's an empty room, or light reflecting in a puddle. I enhance the somber and quiet feelings because to reflect on the individual self and its relationship to the world. The way a space loses its function when abandoned by humans and how people can inherently have purpose.
Skills Developed:
Texture work
Painting Shadows and Darkness
Creating an Indoor image
The Great Fortress:
20in/16in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
A painting made for a friend, putting an image to the story he has been writing for years. A world of endless adventures that I know he will be able to make a reality.
Skills Developed:
Painting a figure
Low angle Painting
Wildlife:
30in/24in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Rejecting the view of the human centric take objects and how some are created by humans and are artificial and some are made by nature. In truth everything comes from the same place, the same stars in the sky forming matter. Flipping around the expectation of the natural bird and artificial fountain. Everything formed from the same atoms and the same paints.
Skills Developed:
Color choice
Photo Surrealism
Soaring Dragons:
16in/20in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
A painting made for my sister representing the bond that we share as well as are collective love of dragons and all things fantasy.
Skills Developed:
Birds eye view (Dragons eye view)
Overhead landscape
Sword in the Stone:
16in/20in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Arther never comes to pick up his sword, it is instead consumed in the lake water. The Dragon guardian still waits for whoever has will to meet this challenge.
Skills Developed:
Underwater Light
Skeletal Structure
Sunset Rain:
20in/16in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Discussing the duality. The endless storm of the rainy city consumed in light and the still sunset above separated from the world. The viewer is looking from a high up window at the city.
Skills Developed:
Color Choice
Soft paint strokes
Drain:
20in/16in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
An up-close look at a drain in High Park in Toronto. This painting is all about the small and personal and painted in the style of a photograph
Skills Developed:
Photorealism
Up close image
Flying in at sunset:
20in/16in Acrylic Painting on Canvas
This painting is about the return trip back home, flying back home after months spent away. The golden light streams in as you look out the rapidly growing landscape.
Skills Developed:
Overhead cityscape practice
Older Work
Below
Meteor Shower
Castle Guardian
Undersea Cave
Vampire Gothic Castle
Pool at sunset