Making art is my second career.  Originally educated as a Chemical Engineer, I completed a 25-year business career before obtaining my Diploma in Fine Arts at the Toronto School of Art (TSA) in 1997.  At TSA, I studied drawing, painting and sculpture, art history and contemporary issues, and I worked with the human figure as my main vocabulary. 

My wife Susan and I moved to the Bancroft area in 2002 and we live in 85 acres of woods.   Our daughter Gillian lives and works in Norwich, England.  I am active in the local arts community and serve as Treasurer of the Algonquin Arts Council.  I am also a member of the Quinte Arts Council and Visual Arts Ontario.

My work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States and England.  I am represented in Toronto by Canvas Gallery.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an impressionist and a colourist.  For the past four years I have painted the woods I live in. Trees emerge from the earth and decay back into it.  The seasons change.  Light enters the forest canopy and scatters on the leaves and ground.  The breeze animates everything.  These rhythms are timeless and they enchant me.  They awaken my sense of place in the natural world and they help me accept my small place in the cosmos.  In my paintings I try to engage these rhythms in a flowing union of woodland forms and colours.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE AND SEEING MY WORK

If you are interested in acquiring any of my work, and you are located in the area bounded roughly by Montreal, Ottawa, London and Toronto, I will be very pleased to bring a selection of pieces to show you and you can evaluate them in your own setting.    I also travel, about twice a year, to the north-east United States.

Each painting in the Current Work and Earlier Work galleries is for sale unless it is shown as [SOLD] in the title line that accompanies its image.  I keep [SOLD] information up-to-date so that you will always know what pieces are available.

My paintings range in price from $400 - $2500.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Ya Ya Gallery, July 7 – August 7, 2007 – “There is Magic in the Woods – New Woodland Paintings”.  Ya Ya Gallery is located at 25 Sherbourne Street North, Bancroft, Ontario – telephone: 613 332 6800.

 

Dave McIntosh,
July 2007