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Published: 2009-07-02 06:15:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 629; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Mixed media on canvas, 30" x 24"Experimental mixed-media piece with studio mate leftovers. The flowers are vinyl remainders and the lower ground is woodchips and shavings, held together with various glazes and pastes and fluorescent paints.
Springtime is when that strange resurrection occurs: flowers rise from their graves fresh as daisies and the world becomes alive with that fresh-earth loamy smell. Life returns.
For a while, this was conceptually titled something like April is the Cruellest Month and was going to be part of my T.S. Eliot series. But springtime is just too much fun and wonder to dwell on death, even metaphorically.
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Awesome textures, a lot of west-canadian style influences in this 
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Thanks! This one was done just for fun and color. It's quite "plasticky" in person, almost vinyl in texture.
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Look like you had a lot of fun with that.How did you get a so "plasticky" texture, what kinds of leftover did you used?
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Plasticky texture = loads of undiluted varnish. Probably too much. I think the flower petals were made from my studio mate's leftover castings - silicon, I think.
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Well, it is a good way to do some recycling,it is very experimental but really impressive. I call this green art
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that blue, along with the texture, really makes the flowers pop. nice.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much, Matthew!
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no problem, i really like how in this picture the flowers almost seem to have an aura or a life energy emiting from them. the wavey effect seems to be your signature in style, how did you come up with such an idea?
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The wavey effect is a bit of fluke and a bit of laziness. It's easier to distort than paint things accurately, but when I give talks I usually explain it by being a runner and a cyclist (just so people don't think I'm all hopped up on hallucinogens) and it's how scenery looks and feels when you're moving through it full of fresh air and endorphins. Vancouver is a health-nut city, so that seems to resonate with people.
The blue electric thingy was also a fluke. I was trying to make the flowers stand out more and work in a bright blue and then I went, "Huh! Electricity!!" It made sense. Especially back when I painted it, in the spring.
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if i were on hallucinogens i could see your paintings being quite a trippy god send lol.
i was hoping to move to vancouver one day, i typed it in on the da search and wa la thats how i came across your paintings.
its a nice touch, i love it when flukes make a turn for the better.
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Thanks - it will peel eventually, I fear (paint doesn't stick long to vinyl, alas).
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