The juxtaposition of two buildings. Interwoven strata of paint and graffiti have coalesced to produce a fanciful patina on the surface of the buildings. Yves’ purple and black bollard guards the gas metre from careless drivers. SIZE: 15” X 11.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR...
The days of Sears Street’s quirky Leslievillian charm are numbered. Soon much of it will be sacrificed to twenty-first century indifference. SIZE: 14.5 X 11.25" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL IMAGE AVAILABLE
Lee’s Food Products was located at 1233 Queen Street East in Leslieville from 1947, when they employed 50 people, until 2020. The company sold the building to a developer and has transferred their operation to a facility in Scarborough, taking their sign with them. In...
A young photographer tenderly poses his sylphlike bride in front of her family’s home in Grace Street. She stands on a spotlit, sweeping curve that leads to a dramatic juxtaposition of light and dark perpendicular shapes. SIZE: 19” X 13.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE...
The old Embassy Pool Hall in Bellair Street, Yorkville. Many a misspent youthful hour was enjoyed there. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Two dolls face each other in a small dairy bottle. They were unearthed in a garden in Leslieville in 1976. Who buried them there? SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
A man and a woman beam at something off camera as they stand in front of a summer cottage at Willow Beach. SIZE: 13.5” X 13.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250
Children play inside a tent made from Muskoka chairs and blankets. SIZE: 11.5” X 17.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A man and his son pay a visit to the boy’s aunt. They pose for a photograph, casually leaning on a lamp post. SIZE: 18” X 12.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Three girls take a ride in a pony cart at Jackson’s Point. SIZE: 12” X 16.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A young woman stands amid trees and vegetation. SIZE: 17.5" X 11.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Formal engagement portrait of a young couple, circa 1912. SIZE: 17” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Formal portrait of a woman and man with their first son, circa 1916. SIZE: 13.5” X 13.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250
Formal photograph of four children with their parents. Their father is wearing spats. SIZE: 21" X 14” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A planter formed like a duck sits on the windowsill in the garret of the flat at Broadview Avenue, overlooking the Don Valley and Toronto skyline. The “Duck” of Urbino in the title of this painting is a reference to the portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da...
A man and woman stand beside a hydrant under the trees on a Toronto street circa 1910. SIZE: 19” X 11.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
The northeast corner of Sherbourne and Dundas Streets in 1977 when that corner was a car park across the street from George’s Spaghetti House. The blue Valiant and the red Volkswagen Beetle belonged to David Strachan, a member of our household at 248 Sherbourne. SIZE:...
The funky huddle of vine clad, rusted metal structures around the old coach house at Queen Street and Coxwell Avenue was one of the arcane delights of Leslieville. Recherché and mildly feral, it was bound to be demolished by people who neither recognized or valued its...
The white porcelaine statue of Guan Yin, Goddess of Mercy, stands in front of a fan with a plant on a striped cloth. Outside the window it’s winter. SIZE: 14” X 10” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The long vines of the houseplant, the telephone wires outside the window and the vertical pattern of the wallpaper below the table define the grid motif in this composition. The plant’s leaves echo the shape of the bird’s beak and tail. SIZE: 17.5” X 12.5” MEDIUM:...
While the cellist takes a break from practising, her instrument leans on a light blue, chrome legged dinette chair. The chair is draped with a forest green coat and matching pillow. The bow balances there. The studio is in the garret of the house in Sherbourne Street....
A plant, a watering can, an oval mirror on the floor reflecting the hallway and the top of the stairs, the easel, a knee and the door at the end of the hallway. In the foreground is the Wilton carpet that was a second hand find on Parliament Street. SIZE: 17.5” X...
A young man plays the guitar in front of a radiator. SIZE: 20" X 21” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE: AVAILABLE
A man stands with two of his grandsons in front of some trees. The flaw in the photograph looks like science fiction. SIZE: 18' X 11” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A wooden Humpty Dumpty with hinged legs sits in the window of an antique shop in Niagara Falls, Ontario. SIZE: 20” X12.75" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The gigantic beaded cranberry glass lamp is surrounded by smaller lamps, clocks and portraits in oval frames, all dominated by the sensual form of the Impala as it bursts out of the wall. SIZE: 17.75" X 13" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
During the winter of the Polar Vortex of 2015, Laura shivered in the draughty coach house behind Queen Street to paint this amazing room whose existence was known by very few people. All manner of arcane objects were artfully arranged, from taxidermy owl, cat and...
Ed Michael Roth took a photograph of the band at the CD release of 57 Minutes in November, 2013. After extensively manipulating the photograph in Photoshop Laura used the altered image as the basis for this painting. Sitting at the red piano in the foreground is Mark...
Mystery men merging with shopfronts and glass doors numbered 306 twice, of Mystery Street. Somewhere, sometime in Toronto a very long time ago. SIZE: 18' X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A couple sit on a log with their infant son in a bucolic setting in 1923. SIZE: 13.5” X 19.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
In 1923 a woman, her young daughter and the baby are in the yard. SIZE: 18” X 1 2” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Fishermen angling just after dawn on the Pefferlaw River. SIZE: 15.5” X 10.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A child’s birthday party. His mother baked a cake for him. His parents and grandmother look on as he gets ready to blow out the candles. The children in the foreground are distracted by the photographer. SIZE: 13.5” X 19.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT:...
On an overcast day a young woman in a black turban carries her shoes as she wades ankle deep in the clear water near the shore. SIZE: 19” X 14” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
At the back of 2 Kensington Place in 1918 a woman holds her infant daughter aloft for a photograph to be taken. A church is in the background, likely the First Baptist Church. This old photograph is disintegrating. SIZE: 19” X 11” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT:...
A bright day in 1958. A man stares abstractedly at a table, deep in thought. Sunlight streams through the sheer curtains. SIZE: 13” X 17.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A young child is delighted by his reflection in a bedroom mirror. SIZE: 13” X 17” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Rempel Manufacturing of Akron Ohio - the rubber Capitol of the world - made a line of latex squeeze toys called “Sunnyslope” from 1946 until 1968. A little girl wears a sombrero and throws a sideways glance as she sits facing her Sunnyslope walking duck, Mr....
Early winter or late spring: A small child in a white knitted hat holds the strap of a white bag. His mittens dangle from a string threaded through the sleeves of his snowsuit. His mother stands behind him wearing a fur coat and a turban, laughing. He is learning to...
A little boy poses holding a baseball bat. His tiny hands can barely support its weight and it droops. He wears his cap sideways, hoping he’ll be mistaken for Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle. The shadow of a big swing falls on the ground beside him. A storm cloud hovers...
A couturière dresses elegantly for a pastoral outing. SIZE: 17.5” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A gentleman stands in front of a park bench in the west end of Toronto. It’s an overcast day sometime in the 1930s. The glaring interseasonal light just swipes his nose and chin, illuminating his white Eton collar and his shirt. SIZE: 19” X 12.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR...
The two semi-detached houses at 1327 and 1329 Queen Street East were built by William J. Hewitt in 1906-07 for John Coatsworth Graham, a prominent ice and coal dealer and prize-winning athlete whose son, Emerson sat in City council and whose daughter, Ella Maud...
Painted during two very hot spells in July and August, 2013. SIZE: 13" X 19.5" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Since this was painted, the cement hydro pole has been replaced by a wood chip pole and the big elm to the right was chopped down. In summer its canopy of green leaves was very beautiful. In the winter it resembled a dowager dressed in lace. SIZE: 13.5” X 20” MEDIUM:...
A painting of our band at the Rex based on a photograph taken by Gary Nicholson in May, 2010. SIZE: 9.5” X 20”" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250 57 Minutes This painting was used in cover artwork of Laura Marks' CD "57 Minutes". DIGITAL LICENSE:...
Sarah Ashbridge travelled from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada with her family in the spring of 1793. They purchased a large block of land east of the present day Greenwood Avenue. Their land ran from the lakeshore to just north of Danforth Avenue. Theirs was the fourth...
In 1832 William Dunbar laid out a town site near the Kingston Road which was later relocated and called Fairport/Dunbarton. When the Grand Trunk Railway arrived it passed close enough to warrant a station. In time the area around the station developed into the village...
This house on Wellington Street in Bowmanville was built in the high Victorian style. Over the years additions in various other styles were added. The original house was a simple one-and-a-half storey Georgian structure built by Marshal Porter, who emigrated from...
The main portion of this Riverdale home was built in 1875 by Thomas Hogarth, principal of York Township School. In 1882 he sold it to his daughter Elinora Heys and her husband, who added the north wing and verandah. It remained in the Heys family until 1964 when it...