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Acrylic on panel, 15cm x 15cm x 5cm, SOLD
I recently reworked the colours a little on this piece for an upcoming show at Propeller Gallery in Toronto.
This piece I did at the Island Natural Science School in early October 2017. I was there with my grade 6 class. What a beautiful afternoon spent creating on the beach, in the sun, with the waves crashing on the beach behind me.
8 cm x 22 cm, construction paper and foam shapes. I did this piece with my daughter at the Art Gallery of Ontario
"222 Mill Road", mixed media on panel, 13" x 15" x 2", 2013 and 2019. SOLD
I reworked this piece from an earlier version.
Excerpt from www.woolwich.ca/media/45djyioc/woolwich-art-tour.pdf:
On the Pond
Artist: Michael Brown
Location: Local Renaissance
My wife and I were long time residents of Elmira. 9 years ago, I began airbrushing. I watched YouTube videos and was inspired to teach myself. I also enjoy photography. My wife told me how much she loved Peter Etril Snyder’s artwork, and asked if I would paint some Mennonite people. I agreed and today they represent our former hometown and have a place in our home. I learned to oil paint a couple years later. I now do approx. 15‐20 commissions a year, including hockey portraits for families. Elmira has and will always be home.
Recently the city planted a Kentucky Coffee Tree out front of our place. It is a beautiful tree. As I was laying down the numbers on this painting, I was often thinking about the tree. I love to observe the changes in plants and trees over time.
Kentucky Coffee Tree, mixed media on canvas, 16" x 12", 2021, $440 SOLD
A view of the East Lincolnshire station just before closure, which came in October 1970. The DMU sitting in the bay platform is working to Mablethorpe.
Scanned from a slide taken by the late Michael Brown, now in my collection.
"The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", mixed media on panel, 30cm x 23cm x 5cm, 2021, AVAILABLE
I love this song by Gordon Lightfoot that tells the tragic story of a boat that sunk in a storm on Lake Superior during the 1970s.
A friend suggested altering part of this painting. So the middle of this painting is slightly different from the one that was posted 6 months ago.
I think that this is the last day of local trains between Leicester and Nottingham, 3 March 1968. A green and blue Cravens pair trail a blue BC&W out of the station, which was to re-open in 1994.
Scanned from an Agfachrome slide taken by the late Michael Brown, now in my collection.
“Alive with Us /Viva com Nós”
Mural by Alexandre Keto who imagines the future lives of Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Agatha Felix had they not become “victims of deadly brutality.”
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Pi to 79 decimal places, 2018. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 150cm x 120cm x 3cm, SOLD
This piece was created by randomly laying down the first 79 digits of the number Pi.
Can you make a difference?, mixed media on canvas, 105cm x 120cm x 5cm, 2022
This most recent piece will be shown at Propeller Gallery from Aug 3-21 in the group exhibition: Old Growth: Resurrection, Regeneration, Intervention
Fibonacci 17, Oil and acrylic on panel, 60cm x 45 cm x 3 cm, 2018, SOLD through Canvas Gallery.
This piece appeared in Season 4, episode 2 of the Handmaid's Tale.
People took to the streets across America to protest the murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by a white cop, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, 2014. Wilson was found not guilty by a grand jury. "Hands up, Don't Shoot" became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter protestors.
Architects: George, Trew and Dunn, 1963-66, for Battersea Council with concrete bas-relief panels by sculptor William Mitchell. Clapham Junction. London Borough of Wandsworth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
MLK, mixed media on panel, 40" x 40" x 2", 2021, SOLD
I used a quote from Martin Luther King that talks about courage and making difficult decisions. The quote runs in the background, although is somewhat obscured by the numbers.
Silver Spring, Maryland, January 24, 2014. The Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition hosted an hour long rally and brief march in downtown Silver Spring to protest ongoing police violence without accountability, most egregiously against people of color. This action was in solidarity with hundreds of similar events nationwide celebrating the true legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. I counted around fifty participants during the hour I was on the street. Interactions between the heavily armed, bullet-proof vested Montgomery County Police and the demonstrators were generally respectful and peaceful.
People took to the streets across America to protest the murder of 18-year old Michael Brown by a white cop, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, 2014. Wilson was found not guilty by a grand jury. "Hands up, Don't Shoot" became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter protestors.
Reading Richard Wright, mixed media on panel, 12” x 9” x 1.5”, 2020, SOLD
I was reading Black Boy, by Richard Wright, when I painted this piece. I found the book very moving. He was born in 1908 (the same year as my grandparents), but fought tremendous racism as a black boy/youth growing up in Mississippi in the 1920s and 30s. The text running in the background of this piece is from a quote of his based on the state of things in the US in the first half of the 20th C.
View on the A68, circa 1963.
Scanned from a negative taken by the late Michael Brown, now in my collection.
Here is a piece I have been working on over the summer. It is titled, Pi to 79 decimal places. I started laying down the numbers and when I got to 79, I felt the piece was finished. However, as with Pi, I could easily have kept on going.
Specs:
Pi to 79 decimal places
Mixed media on canvas
150 cm x 120 cm, 2016
$2800
One of a series of works created based on intersections in Toronto (a colour, part of a building, a shape, a poster, etc from that area). AVAILABLE through Galeria ArtDealers
6" x 6", oil and graphite on panel, 2013
168 letters drawn at random, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48" x 42" x 2", 2013 and 2019, $2400. AVAILABLE through Canvas Gallery
I reworked this piece that I painted in 2013. This will also be featured in an exhibition that I will be having at Gallery 1313 from October 23 through Nov 6.
“Off the road”, oil and acrylic on panel, 90 cm x 120 cm, 2020. SOLD through Canvas Gallery
I started working on this painting last fall but left it aside when we were down in Costa Rica for the winter. I finished it off recently in a home that we are renting in High Park.
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