Artist's Statement

Matthew and Me.

As visual artists our approach is similar in many ways. We internalize what we see and experience and find ways to share the results of our efforts with colleagues, family and friends - and, on occasion, with the world at large; we are visual storytellers. Our language crosses cultures and time; it is ancient and modern.

We explore nature and learn to sculpt, photograph and paint. We select and focus on the image we want and somehow layer and massage the project/object into existence. Inspiration may come from a patch of grass or an attempt to illustrate complex family stories.

And yes, we enjoy each others company. Here's to collaborations!

My own work in this exhibition has provided and opportunity to contrast every day images of Toronto ( an ongoing investigation ), withthe pastoral dreamscapes and gardens of the costal region between Yarmouth & Digby, Nova Scotia: soft hills, tree lines, ocean & the romance of lightly traveled roads...

Photography has been my calling in life; my camera has been my closest companion, my instrument of exploration and a way of working things out.


Matthew's artist statement

I started tearing and folding and taping original and found photographs into scrapbooks. I filled volume after volume with my studies and collages, until each one looked and felt like a well-loved, epic pop-up storybook, held together by an unchanged metal spiral. A portrait unfolded thru this process of the pressures and pleasures of this rare, flawed, and beautiful existence.

I've come to cherish the sense of touch, of contact with my pictures. The photographs and the feelings I have about them become more vivid as I sculpt them with my hands, find the folds and tears, the places to cut, the parts to weld to the surface. These canvasses are my carefully crafted reflections on the things I have experienced so far. Nature, relationships, pain, loss, determination, love, time growth, change, beauty, and ugliness-these are the things I feel in
my bones; they are the soul's lifeblood; they are the ultimate unifying truth.

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