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Author: keirartworks

Artist, Musician, Writer, Teacher. Mum to an incredible person, friend to many, Incredibles. Gardener. Thinker. Collaborator. K

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polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

Algomarine at dock in Owen Sound harbour. I took this photo in 2009, and used in 2014 it as reference for the background of “Axe”

The one just finished. 60″x72″; $3,350. It’s difficult to understand scale here (thumbnails are same size as my face). This one had me on lock-down for the last two days of its’ fulfillment.

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

from #Selfie (2014). inverse image of me on white indian cotton.

This is a huge canvas that has served as the ‘catcher of drips’ on my studio wall for the past six years. it will become four huge paintings – each with five years of painting drips embedded

“Round I: Pilgrimage”, 36″, mixed media on canvas

new series: foot prints1 (underpainting)

6×6″, mixed media on paper, 1999 (sold)

The only painting I cannot sell the original of – inspired by Ted Huges’ book “Crow”, and painted after a near-death experience on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. Two full-sized high-quality prints are left of an edition of 4 – $600. unframed each.

me hiding behind my other self

By tomorrow morning these two will be in the hall, and the next two up & talking. Stay with me, folks….

Hologram, from a series of paintings about music from 2001. I’ve always wanted to create a third image that exists in front of the painting, depending on the light & time of day. It worked in this one. Impossible to photograph, tho.

detail of Snaffle Bit (in progress). 4′ square

blue ground from “Axe” before cheesecloth and netting layer applied

detail of the same painting

“Bee”, acrylic and graphite on paper, 1999. 6×8″. Original is sold, but I am in the process of making prints. Will post on art page when they’re available

“Throwback”, 2014, 60″x60″, Acrylic on a piece of artist’s canvas (I’d used as a housepainting drop sheet for 15 years). $2,950.00

Beaver River valley, from What Makes Us, 2004. 18″ w x 48″, sold.

‘Black’. 2014, 36×36, acrylic on dyed cotton.

underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

And shiny, reflective things…

Cello Spine, from What Makes Us, 2004. Acrylic and vine charcoal on Linen, 6’x 28″, sold.

Dad’s chopsaw – I cut an 1100 sq foot ash floor on this. Now it’s in a painting

From #Selfie (2014). ‘Masks’ – 84″ x 36″; mixed media on canvas; $3,250.00

Here’s the photoshop sketch for Red. Looking also for another image to layer on top of this for symbolic reasons… it will come.

drawing on background

‘shovel’ very close to finished

taken when I was backing up Larry Jensen at The Court House, somewhere around 2004

inheritance from two families on my mother’s side: A proud sign from Kennedy Foundry of Owen Sound, hanging on the wall of Circle Bar Ladies’ Hosiery factory, also in Owen Sound, owned and operated by my mom & aunt’s grandparents, Walter and Catherine Keebler.

detail of 4’x4′ painting in progress: D-ring snaffle bit

moose – acrylic on paper, 2001 26″x40″ unframed. Not sold.

3pm today. It has since transformed again. Sold.

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

taken September 27th, 5pm.

three of five images, underdrawing…

“Snakeroot”, 6×6″, graphite and acrylic on paper, 1999. Sold

“wishbones”, 1999, 6×8″, acrylic and graphite on paper. Sold

#Selfie (Summer 2014 solo show): Round II: Surrender. 24″ Work in progress

Chalk Horse, 2014; 48″sq, acrylic and mixed media on canvas. I wrote two blogs about the process of this painting called “Letting Go”. Not sold; $1,850.00