Art Matters

Spring is here! There is a prediction of snow. This is after all Edmonton, Alberta. The Red Gallery is changing. My work as an artist will continue but much much slower. The "40 Years" show is closing as well as the need to visually express my culture. I don't think I have much more to say about living in Edmonton, after the show "Car Culture" and "Portrait of Edmonton". I want to change my world, but the Bergstrom Block has done that beautifully. This representation of my desire to improve my world has accomplished that. As an artist I can only do so much. As a developer my desire is to continue to create the sort of environment that I want to live in. The current project is a house on the Pembina property. I have started to do paintings of this land. Nature, only as it represents the human condition. A road, or some sunflowers planted by my granddaughter, a small cabin such are my subject matters.

In the mean time, I am writing the "View to Understanding" my journal notes and letters from early years to the current. This is a reflection of my life. No great trauma or mystery, just a life well lived and few regrets.