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Your Slip is Showing

Your Slip is Showing

"Your Slip is Showing" one of several pieces recently exhibited in the 2008 solo show "This Solid Ground" explores our increasingly economically determined culture. This playful piece shows a person is slipping, a visual metaphor for our currant culture. Fully...

The Face of Christ as Palette

The Face of Christ as Palette

The image shown is one of 14 images made during Ash Wednesday prayer services and reconciliation services. Before each service, the image was drawn with palm ashes, and then used as a palette to sign the congregations. The final image is created with the congregation,...

Knowledge In Sight

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)

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...

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.

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.