Paintings for Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 2026!

I’ve been invited by Tangled Arts + Disability Gallery to provide artworks for their booth at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF) 2026 once again!

Theme of NEW Works on Exhibit:

I prepared 2 NEW original watercolour works on paper: both are framed for presentation at the booth (9X12). Both are expressive variations on the same theme, titled “In Answer to a Dream, a Question”. Both the dream and the question emerge from a deeply personal loss and the realization that we all carry a space, a void within. Perhaps this void exists to allow for movement of the life force within us. The question is: how do we experience that void and that life force, when we encounter it? How do we relate to it, intellectually, emotionally or viscerally?

Has our awareness of this void come through grief and suffering, release or joy? Is it a light, a feeling of warmth, of love, or as some say the spark of the Divine, the beginnings of all creative impulse that compel us? Or is it an emptiness we fear, a darkness, the cruel horror of annihilation that irresistibly draws us in? We may travel the spectrum between emotions as we experience and express our inner states of being. Do we love or do we fear?

Whatever we resonate with, we radiate, and replicate. Eventually our choices build momentum in our lives and create a destiny to which we must answer, a flow of movement which we cannot resist. This is the never-ending truth of the human journey, a path of becoming, of purpose and of endless possibility for each and every one of us, that is ours alone to imagine and embody.

Description of NEW Works:

The first of the two paintings expresses the impulse to grow, to seek our source in the circle of light: the light that powers nature and creates all matter, including the body we require to experience ourselves as alive. And yet, as the wide, straight white lines from bottom to top reflect and incline towards this light, the use of negative space suggests that all bodies are ephemeral and it is the jewelled colours that persist beyond our gaze. This painting is titled:“Void: Cornucopia of Fulfilment”.

The second of the two paintings expresses the impulse to grow from a different vantage point altogether. The negative space here is filled with rectangular outlines which appear to move ceaselessly in an alternating current, much like the wind that drives the weather. The flow is anchored by the web of life appearing in diagonal at the bottom left and reappearing at the top right of the painting. Three circles frame physical worlds, deep space, the sea, frozen ground, which mirror a more challenging experience, one that requires us to risk our very survival. Are we consumed by the desire to fall into an infinity of being that ends in annihilation? This painting is titled: “Void: Pulled into the Vacuum”.

A limited edition of 2 giclee prints of each painting, will be available for sale at the Tangled Art + Disability Gallery booth from July 10-12. Hope to see you there!