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...please go to my instagram account here. It is updated frequently with current and archival work.

For a selection of finished works and concepts, go here.

This blog is no longer regularly updated. It remains, however, a large achieve of artworks. They include:

A large number of free sketchbook drawings in china marker, done from life in the cafe, the university, various airports, lounges, subway cars, parks and bars.

Etchings, mostly printed at the Open Studio in Toronto, Ontario. And also drypoints.

A good number of watercolours, chiefly painted on site in Italy, France, and elsewhere.

A masterly and sombre series of English landscapes done in black ink over the course of three weeks in May, 2011, in the hills of Surrey near Guildford. These remain some of my best work.


A great selection of life drawings, mostly in ink, from the TAP Centre for Creativity in London, Ontario; from Bijan's School of Art, also in London, Ontario; in bondage and kinky costumes, in Toronto; and from the long running Toronto life drawing group, the Collective.


A large array of drawings made by Tarragon Smith on the iPad or iPhone.

Some of Tarragon Smith's beautiful pottery. More of Tarragon's ceramics may be seen (and purchased!) at his commercial site.


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Two Seek Adventure

That Wednesday, Carmen and Carmichael had a field trip to the Villa di Pratolino near Florence. The class of children rampaged through the garden's geometric alleyways, and sometime before noon Carmen, leading Carmichael by the hand, found the giant.

They weren't supposed to slip past the fence and shuck their shoes by the waterside. They shouldn't have have waded out into the water. Above all, they should never have looked up at that rocky face and said - with the insouciance of extreme youth - hello.



The Apennine Colossus may still be seen at Pratolino, in the remains of the garden laid out by Francesco di Medici in the 1570s. It was created by Giambologna, greatest of the sculptors of the mannerist era, some of whose more famous works are in the Loggia di Lanzi in downtown Florence.

serene and primal

Danielle

Descent from the Garden (detail)

pregnant model

swift heart

quiet time

pink headscarf

Act of Mercy (detail)

boots!

rest for the wicked

Alan

central park

Weigh your words

reading Twilight upside down

The model, that is, not the book.

Its full and awful grandeur

"Its full and awful grandeur" was how Charles Dickens described the ruins of the Roman Forum. It would have looked different in his day, with the arch of Septimius Severus and Column of Phocas (left) half buried, and the Basilica Julia (foreground ruins) entirely underground. The church of Luca and Martina would have looked the same, and ditto the Curia Julia (right), except for its window arrangement.

This picture is in a group show at the Westland Gallery opening this Wednesday. 

detail

waiting too long

she's not asleep

Santa Maria della Salute

two women

time for romance

drawing

I know you're there

sleepy head

who are you trying to fool?

man in the mirror

come again, comrade?

being boring

fun is where the feet are

alone and liking it

a very long dream

your papers are out of order

La femme

Fenlands vista

cordial reception

Reinisa with a rose

Any time you're ready

A prospect of Ely cathedral

I can't forget

scallywag

poser

hold me

busy now

A House in Settignano

waiting at the library

Fortezza da Basso

In the centre of the city of Florence broods a huge and uninviting fortress. It was built as part of the city walls, but like many urban fortifications it was designed as much to oppress the citizens as oppose the foes. Duke Cosimo didn't trust his people - they had exiled his family more than once in the past - and wanted to make sure his army was always on hand.

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bittersweet bonanza

all to do again

how you feel inside