“Think Bob Ross meets Edward Burtynsky” – CBC News
100 years ago Tom Thomson and artists in ‘The Group of Seven’ made a name for themselves painting the pristine Canadian landscape. 100 years later, I’ve created contemporary artworks that reflect the new Canadian landscape. In this ongoing painting series, I ‘hijack’ vintage, mass-produced, Bob Ross-style landscape paintings found in thrift stores and antique shops, and I paint in hazmat cleanup crews and man-made environmental disasters. Many of the titles are appropriated from actual news headlines from real accidents that have occurred throughout the Canadian landscape. Series completed and sold out. 2015-2020.
Ruined Landscapes from the ‘I’ve Got Some Bad News’ solo exhibit,Ottawa Art Gallery 2016Collecting samples after the Mount Polley tailings pond breach 2016, oil on canvas, 24 × 26 inGas tanker rolls over on highway near Calgary spilling 25,000 liters into wetlands 2016, oil on canvas, 26 × 40 inA hazmat crew removes a body downstream from the accident 2016, oil on canvas, 26 × 32 in‘Syncrude To Pay $3M for Ducks Killed In Alberta Tarsands Tailings Ponds’, Loon Choir Album cover, 2016, oil on canvas, 26 × 42 in, SOLDCompanies Illegally Dumped Toxic Fracking Chemicals in Dawson Creek Water Treatment Systems At Least Twice, Officials Report 2016, oil on canvas, 28 × 42 in, SOLDHigh levels of endocrine-disrupting chemical found in small boat 2016, oil on canvas, 28 × 41 in, SOLD‘HMCS Calgary leaks 30,000 liters of fuel into the Strait of Georgia’, Diefenbunker Museum Collection 2016, oil on canvas, 23 × 34 in, SOLDMercury levels still rising near Grassy Narrows First Nation 2016, oil on canvas, 29 × 36 in, SOLD‘Another cargo ship ran aground near Squamish’, City of Ottawa Collection 2016, oil on canvas, 28 × 39 in, SOLDRuined Landscape for OAG Le Party 2016, oil on canvas, 23 × 36 in, SOLDFortunately, this wasn’t another Lac-Mégantic 2016, acrylic on canvas, 21 × 38 in, SOLD
