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Knowledge In Sight

Sep 5, 2008

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Knowledge In Sight

Knowledge In SightWe know the story: how Eve and Adam and the serpent in the Garden of Eden tempting them to take and eat the forbidden fruit. Fruit traditionally symbolizes that which was forbidden and the transience of life. The bitten fruit rests on the edge of the...

Blue Dasher Dragonfly (male)

Sep 5, 2008

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Blue Dasher Dragonfly (male)

Although my principle means of expressing myself artistically are painting, sculpture and object making, I have also used the camera over the long length of my career. In fact, my first international exhibitions back in the 1970's were of my photographs. I love to...

Aug 29, 2008

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Reminders of the quotidian mysteries

When you see her work, it can be difficult to know what exactly you’re looking at. Donovan’s patiently created work deserves an equally patient, detailed look. Its relationship to natural phenomena—coral, bubbles, snowdrifts, hardened volcanic lava—is striking at distance, but as you approach the work, it maintains its artistry even as it reveals its construction.

Aug 22, 2008

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Q&A with Gordon Leverton, “Artist”

I draw and paint buildings with pastel on paper. I walk around factory sites, alleys and run-down neighbourhoods with my camera, take pictures of buildings or doorways, walls and so on, then draw an image partially based on the photo.

The Interval

Aug 22, 2008

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The Interval

This drawing is part of a series I?m doing about people and their immediate environment. I try to draw people in the room they spend the most time in. This woman is the wife of the assistant pastor of our church. She spends most of her time with her baby son. This was...