Boreas Sanctus
May 10th 2017 A Better Man They say that it’s important for the maintenance of good mental health to devote time every day to gratitude. To that end, I spent the better part of the past two weeks staring into the noble eyes of this good man. I painted it, and then scraped it off,…
Devotion 2009 Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 in (nfs) A portrait of my friend’s father. He had spent years making a natural mountain stream running though his property considerably more beautiful and if possible, more natural. As he grew older he spent slightly less time hefting rocks and more time just watching the progress…
D.A. Thompson (Formal) 2009 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 32 in (nfs) This portrait was commissioned by Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, a law firm in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. The firm’s founding member was my grandfather, Donald Alexander Thompson. I was honoured to be hired by the firm to paint his portrait. It was not an…
Sibling Perspectives December, 2008 (nfs) This portrait is of a student and her brother. I used a photograph of them taken by a wonderful photographer to get a basis for this image. I like that each of these individual’s personalities are clearly reflected in their focal points – the one looking outward at the world…
D.A. Thompson (Natural) 2008 Oil on Canvas (nfs) Well this photo could have been taken much more professionally, but it is depicting a painting I made of my grandfather as he surveyed the ancestral land in Medford, Ontario.
A Bridge Through the Spectrum September, 2008 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 32 in An imperfect portrait of two students. I’d like to say that I painted them so that they looked unlike the actual students on purpose, in order to protect their anonymity. In fact, why don’ t I? It was on purpose! totally…
Mother Teresa 2008 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 32 in I understand that there has been a large debate over whether to make Mother Theresa a Saint, in light of her recently published diaries, which reveal her as a profoundly depressed woman who had utterly lost her faith. Try though she might to regain the…
Young St. Mary with her Mother, St. Anne