Trinary Opens Tomorrow!

Just wanted to remind you all that "Trinary" opens at Cube Gallery in Ottawa tomorrow and runs from March 1 - 27. There will be a vernissage this Thursday from 6-9, hope to see you there! The show will be comprised of paintings I did in Italy as well as a selection of some of my most recent works. For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.


















Here's the write-up for the show:

Three emerging artists who push the boundries of contemporary painting. Kristy Gordon has chalked up a long list of awards as a landscape and figurative painter, including honours from the Federation of Canadian Artists, the Orillia Museum of Art and History, and the Portrait Society of America. Her paintings hang in collections worldwide, including the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Susan Ukkola’s encaustic abstract painting has been recognized with numerous awards. Her transparent layers of encaustic or bee’s wax painting reveal traces of what went before, the “pentimento”. Pentimento describes the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. Peggy Hughes is an emerging Ottawa artist whose award-winning work is shown regularly at the Cube Gallery. Primarily a studio artist, she works in acrylic with mixed techniques to create multi-layered and textured pieces. Peggy explores concrete, intellectual and emotional subjects in an abstract or non-objective manner, she also is fascinated by the act of creating: the process to her is paramount.

Ten by Ten Craze

This winter, I ended up on a kind of 10x10 craze. I was really into it. Everything I was painting was on 10x10 canvases. My 'bachelorette' apartment was filling up with them! Since most of my walls here are made of cement I can't even hang anything on the walls, so my floors were just lined all around with these 10"x10" paintings... here's a few of them, hope you like 'em! Some of them are going to be for sale in the upcoming exhibition at Cube Gallery in Ottawa which runs from March 1 - 27. There will be a vernissage on Thursday, March 3rd from 6-9pm, hope to see you there! For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.






















Eli in Headphones, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"
























Adam, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"























Nadaa, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"


Eli Profile, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"


Eli in Hoody, oil on canvas, 10" x 10"

Salon International 2011

I just found out that two of my paintings were accepted into the prestigious Salon International 2011, a project of the International Museum of Contemporary Masters that is hosted by the Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas. The show will be judged by Daniel Greene, who's work I greatly admire and will be held April 2nd through 22nd, 2011. The paintings that I will have in it are "The Grown-Up" and "Armour at the Bardini."























"The Grown-up," oil on panel, 14" x 10"

Portrait Society of America - Members Only Competition

It has just been announced that my painting "Armour at the Bardini," has received an honourable mention in the Still-Life category of the Portrait Society of America's Members Only Competition!






















"Armour at the Bardini," oil on panel, 12"x 8"

"Trinary" at Cube Gallery in Ottawa

I'm excited to announce that in just a few weeks "Trinary," a showcase of work by three emerging artists, opens! It will run from March 1 - 27 at Cube Gallery in Ottawa (1285 Wellington Street West). There will be a vernissage on Thursday, March 3rd from 6-9pm, hope to see you there! For more information please contact them at info@donmonet.ca or call them at (613)728-2111.