It has been nearly a month since I have written anything, I have simply been enjoying painting, so updating my website and blog has been taking the back seat. I plan to avoid this in the future and make more regular entries. I have been getting a few commissions done and just took a road trip to Ottawa last weekend to supply new pieces to my gallery in Ottawa, Terence Robert Gallery:
http://www.terencerobertgallery.com/site/index.html.
The focus for TRG is singers, actors, directors, writers, politicians, great minds and people of influence. I like to refer to this work as ‘Faces I Know.’ My goal is to do four a month, so stay tuned to my website or go to TRG and check them out. They are great fun to paint, good practice for my passion of portraiture, and people love them. If you have any suggestions of people you would like to see painted please email me at dylanrnoble@gmail.com.
On another note I would like to share a piece I’m in the process of completing. This is a wedding gift for a close friend's brother. It currently has the first layer of paint on it though is in need of a wash to help create more depth and then a final layer of paint to refine and pop certain aspects of the piece. I’m thoroughly enjoying painting it, which has helped reignite my interest in surreal landscapes.
My plan is on combining my curiosity of surreal landscapes and portraiture into a series called “There once was…”. These pieces will be on there way to Galerie D'Este in Montreal every month or so, as these are rather time consuming technically. This will help to build interest for my solo show, the date of which is yet to be decided.
http://www.galeriedeste.com/html/home.asp
On that note I have been collecting vintage photos for the past three years from random antique stores with no other reason then to have them framed at some point down the road. With an interest in history and the idea of past lives, I often wonder what would have happened at a particular point of land or situation 50 years ago or 333 years ago. Random thoughts run through my head, good and bad. These usually result in the creation of an occurrence which will now result in a painting. Along with my vintage photos and internet resources, are pictures I have been taking the last month on excursions up to Caledon, Ontario (approximately 45mins NW of Toronto). As a result I have got two pieces which I will begin in the next month.
The first one is called “Dominion Road, Smith at East Credit River, 1912” and the second piece “Bush Street Boys, 1826”.
Caledon, is a gorgeous place to visit this time of year as the leaves are turning. Many people from the GTA make there way up there to bird watch, fly fish on East Credit River, Hike the Bruce and Brimstone trail and of course take photos. Caledon was a source of inspiration for A.J. Casson and other well know Canadian artists. The image below is by A.J. Casson looking down on the Forks of Credit where I have been spending weekends with my fiancee, my farther and mother in-law to be and our three dogs at their cabin.
SIDE NOTE: Keith has found his home and will now smoke on the walls of a wonderful private collection.
