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...
Paintings
Sears Street, October
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
China Lily
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...
Grace Street
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...
Tim Reading
Tim relaxes, reading The Guardian in the garden at Mazenod Avenue on a balmy spring evening after work. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Embassy Pool Hall
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
Talk Talk
An overbearing man won't shut up. He struts and frets and yammers on. A woman sits in a chair, nonplussed. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Farleigh Road
Looking out the window at Elton's flat in Stoke Newington to see a Morris Minor parked out front. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Dolls In A Bottle
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
Daydream
An imaginary woman pauses while reading a book to gaze abstractedly through the foliage. Leaning back on her chaise lounge, She loses herself in her reverie. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Dancers
People dancing at a party as the band plays on. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Victoria Road Interior
Wicker chairs with densely patterned cushions sit before a window through which can be seen the garden wall and neighbouring houses in Victoria Road, Cowes, IOW. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Cowes Harbour
From the heights of Castle Road there is a grand view of the backs of the buildings in the High Street and of the harbour, where racing boats head out towards the Medina River and East Cowes. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Busigny
Busigny Guest House, a listed building, is on the hill above the High Street and Cowes Harbour. The lady who owned it at the time of this drawing, Cynthia, had a magnificent garden and a collection of Devon Rex cats. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL...
Self Portrait
The reflection of this serious young woman in a mirror appears to gaze back at the viewer, but she’s really gazing at her own likeness. She wears a beribbonned cheesecloth dress of her own design and manufacture while she paints her self portrait in the garret of the...
Off Shady Lane
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
Camping
Children play inside a tent made from Muskoka chairs and blankets. SIZE: 11.5” X 17.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Annie, Morris, Ben
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
Pony Cart
Three girls take a ride in a pony cart at Jackson’s Point. SIZE: 12” X 16.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Mary
A young woman stands amid trees and vegetation. SIZE: 17.5" X 11.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Young Couple
Formal engagement portrait of a young couple, circa 1912. SIZE: 17” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Brothers
A boy comforts his anxious little brother in a doorway overlooking a street. Their mother sits out of sight on the stairs below. SIZE: 19” X 11.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Peacock Feathers
This is one of Laura’s first oil paintings. The pewter pitcher was among many Dutch pewter items belonging to the Marks family provided by a close family friend from Holland. SIZE: 20" X 16" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE...
Ben, Mary, Morris
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
St. John’s Wood Kitchen
The view of Allitson Road from the kitchen window at the flat above the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. Spider plant and sprouted avocado seed on the window ledge. SIZE: 23" X 15" MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Katzman Family
Formal photograph of four children with their parents. Their father is wearing spats. SIZE: 21" X 14” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
The Nettleton Children
The boy in the kilt was Robin Nettleton. He grew up near Newcastle, making regular visits to Edinburgh to stay with his grandmother, whose house was in the Royal Mile. His siblings were Sally and Charles. SIZE: 5.75” X 7.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250...
St. John’s Wood Interior
A young Israeli bride in the sitting room of the flat over the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. SIZE: 30" X 36” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $450 DIGITAL LICENSE: AVAILABLE
Villars Interior/Exterior
The opened balcony door reveals and reflects the Dents Du Midi in the Chablais Alps of Switzerland. In the foreground are several spent bottles of quite good wine. SIZE: 16" X 11.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Two Windows
The imperfections of the 120 year old window glass serve to amplify the appearance of frenetic energy in the angular branches of the trees outside the window. Those shapes are echoed by the flowers in the jug on the counter and their shadows, the rims of the light...
Telly, Stoke Newington
An unnaturally shallow television sporting a jug of chrysanthemums in front of the window in Farleigh Road. SIZE: 12” X 8.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Duck Of Urbino
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...
Blue Deck Chair
Furniture in the chalet at Argentieres included a bright blue deck chair. SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Tim And Clare’s
The view from Tim and Clare’s Cowes house looking over the rooftops towards the Solent. SIZE: 10.5” X 8”” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Rosetti
Pints of Pride, perfectly kept Dolcelatte off a great wheel with doorstops of fresh Italian bread at the Rosetti, a Fuller's pub beside the Cavalry Barracks in Ordnance Road, St. John’s Wood. The floors and walls of the pub were completely covered in blue and white...
Rob, Drawing
Preparatory drawing for the oil painting of the same subject. SIZE: 23.5 “ X 18.5” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Mardi Gras
The hallway at Mazenod with a poster from the Mardi Gras at New Orleans on the wall. SIZE: 20” X 26” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Elton’s Instruments
Saxophonist, Elton Dean’s piano and his jacket slung over the chair, among other items in the sitting room of his flat in Farleigh Road. SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Cowes Sea Front
This was a complete fantasy based on on a tirade uttered by a yachtie who said the motor boat people are cads and bounders with gold chains, open shirts and hairy chests, and their women wear stiletto heels on the cobblestones of the High Street. SIZE: 10.5” X 8”...
Auntie Vi’s Lamp
Josie basks in the focused light from the tiny lampshade of her Auntie Vi’s lamp. She sits at the table in the sitting room of the flat in Stoke Newington. SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Alec Washing Dishes
Alec from the back washing dishes at our chalet while on an Alpine skiing holiday SIZE: 10.5” X 8” MEDIUM: INK DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
West End Lane Gazebo
View of the brand new garden in West End Lane and the backs of houses in Priory Road, NW6. SIZE: 12.5” X 8” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Victoria Road, Cowes
The ramshackle but cosy workers’ cottages off Cowes Parade were the perfect places to stay during Cowes week. This one had a one-clawed lobster hanging in pride-of-place on the dining room wall. On the wall under the lobster there was a small framed statement saying...
Trees, Arching Houses
The back garden at Mazenod Avenue, West Hampstead. This painting was featured in the Guardian U.K. newspaper. SIZE: 12.5” X 8.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Sam and Dina
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
Trees And Mountains
This painting was started in haste and finished in London. Another Alpine scene. SIZE: 12.5 X 8.25 MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Sherbourne And Dundas
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:...
Rubbish Bins,Mazenod Avenue
The street outside the flat in Mazenod Avenue when the pink chestnuts in Quex Road were in blossom. SIZE: 12.5” X 17.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Giudecca
The old Jewish quarter in Venice on a spring day in 1983. SIZE: 12” X 9” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Gazebo
The gazebo with its pink roses belonged to the grand old house, Mornington, which was situated at the bottom of Mornington Road in Cowes. In inclement weather it afforded shelter for watching the races from the nearby Royal Yacht Squadron. SIZE: 15.75” X 11.5” MEDIUM:...