My First Military Commission

Here's a commission I recently finished. I thought the lighting was really striking in the photo reference I got. It was an interesting challenge to try to maintain the simplicity of the lighting across the complex grouping of the troops. Hope you like it!

















"Lieutenant-Colonel Conrad Mialkowski addressing his troops in the Mojave Desert during pre-deployment training for Kandahar." oil on canvas, 18"x 24"

Source of Reference Photo: 1 RCR Ready to Deploy
National Defence. With the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, 2010.

Trinary Review on Visual Encounters

Visual Encounters has posted a review of the exhibition at Cube gallery, as well as some good photos of the show! The show is up until March 27th (1285 Wellington Street West, Ottawa). For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.

Studio Interview

Check out the video interview that I gave in my Toronto studio for the artist talks at Cube Gallery today. The video is by Jesse Ewles and the music is by Alexis Marsh and Samuel Jones. Hope you like it!

Trinary Vernissage

Thanks to everyone who made the vernissage at Cube Gallery such a success last night! It was so great to see you all and it meant so much to me! The show is up until March 27th, so if you didn't make it to the opening you still have time to check out the show! Also, check out the mention in the Ottawa Citizen about my work and the exhibition! Even though Peter was sick and couldn't attend the vernissage, he still wrote about the show in his column! Thanks Peter!

















Me and John Flynn from Cube Gallery

















Cube Gallery was broadcasting the exhibition live with Ustream.

Trinary Opens Tomorrow!

Just wanted to remind you all that "Trinary" opens at Cube Gallery in Ottawa tomorrow and runs from March 1 - 27. There will be a vernissage this Thursday from 6-9, hope to see you there! The show will be comprised of paintings I did in Italy as well as a selection of some of my most recent works. For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.


















Here's the write-up for the show:

Three emerging artists who push the boundries of contemporary painting. Kristy Gordon has chalked up a long list of awards as a landscape and figurative painter, including honours from the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Orillia Museum of Art and History, and the Portrait Society of America. Her paintings hang in collections worldwide, including the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Susan Ukkola’s encaustic abstract painting has been recognized with numerous awards. Her transparent layers of encaustic or bee’s wax painting reveal traces of what went before, the “pentimento”. Pentimento describes the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. Peggy Hughes is an emerging Ottawa artist whose award-winning work is shown regularly at the Cube Gallery. Primarily a studio artist, she works in acrylic with mixed techniques to create multi-layered and textured pieces. Peggy explores concrete, intellectual and emotional subjects in an abstract or non-objective manner, she also is fascinated by the act of creating: the process to her is paramount.

Ten by Ten Craze

This winter, I ended up on a kind of 10x10 craze. I was really into it. Everything I was painting was on 10x10 canvases. My 'bachelorette' apartment was filling up with them! Since most of my walls here are made of cement I can't even hang anything on the walls, so my floors were just lined all around with these 10"x10" paintings... here's a few of them, hope you like 'em! Some of them are going to be for sale in the upcoming exhibition at Cube Gallery in Ottawa which runs from March 1 - 27. There will be a vernissage on Thursday, March 3rd from 6-9pm, hope to see you there! For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.






















Eli in Headphones, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"
























Adam, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"























Nadaa, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"


Eli Profile, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"


Eli in Hoody, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"

Salon International 2011

I just found out that two of my paintings were accepted into the prestigious Salon International 2011, a project of the International Museum of Contemporary Masters that is hosted by the Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas. The show will be judged by Daniel Greene, who's work I greatly admire and will be held April 2nd through 22nd, 2011. The paintings that I will have in it are "The Grown-Up" and "Armour at the Bardini."























"The Grown-up," oil on panel, 14" x 10"