sometimes work is beautiful.

August 23, 2012 by keirartworks Leave a comment

My dad’s chopsaw, that cut all 1000 sq feet of our 1 1/4″ ash floor.
Thanks dad.

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drawing on background

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

‘shovel’ very close to finished

footprints 2 (underpainting)

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

And shiny, reflective things…

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

front

“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

me hiding behind my other self

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.

apologies – this is a studio shot and I was in a rush – show opening 2 hours hence. It’s a bit blurry. Will post proper shot when I can…

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.

Bruce Peninsula tree in early spring

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

detail of the same painting

polywog (detail), from What Makes Us, 2004

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

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”

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the rehearsal, L. More therapy.

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

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

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

drawing on background for ‘Axe’

detail from “Manitoulin”, which I painted in 2004. This one’s big – approx 7’w x 5’h

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.

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

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

plant fire

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

functional art – cobalt blue runner; sienna napkins – 5′ .5″ long by 24″ wide, back flannel back. $289.00 plus shipping

Hip Cello, from 2008, recently come back to me, since the owner has drastically reduced his wall space.. I’ve missed this one.

I wanted to put the ‘positive’ image on the black ground, and the inverse one on white… Here’s the drawing

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

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

detail from a painting I’m working on now. I think it’s about my parents…

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

diptych Shovel/Axe. 29″w x 78″h (x 2). $1799. each; $3,600. as dyptich.

Silence (detail), from Sea Hear, 2001

detail d. intervention 2

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

three of five images, underdrawing…

this one is singing now….

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

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

underdrawing for “response to Selfies 1”

“Resonance”, from Sea Hear (2001). 60″x48″; sold

“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

new series: foot prints1 (underpainting)

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.

taken September 27th, 5pm.

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