 Gethsemane60"x48", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018. SOLD |  Nature by Car 336"x24", acrylic and oil on panel, 2018. SOLD |  On That Day60"x48", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018. SOLD |
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 MattWood-077 |  Golgotha48"x60", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018 |  Tender Mercies60"x48", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018. SOLD |
 Conclave Cave26"x21, acrylic and oil marker on canvas over plywood, 2017. |  Steeple Harbour60"x48", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018. SOLD |  Roiling StormOil on panel, 60x48, SOLD |
 Breath on the mountainAcrylic and oil on canvas on board, SOLD |  The Tumbling Mirth48"x32", oil on panel, 2018. |  Golda24"x24", acrylic on panel, 2018. SOLD |
 Blue Bayou24"x24", acrylic on panel, 2017. SOLD |  Sub-Basements of the Eastern Suburbs30"x36", acrylic and oil on canvas. 2018 |  Vermillion Reasons24"x24", acrylic on panel, 2017. SOLD |
 Fast Times24"x24", acrylic on panel, 2018. |  Stubborn Optimism24"x24", acrylic on panel, 2018. SOLD |  The Neighbourhood #336"x24", acrylic on panel, 2018. SOLD |
 Butterfly Atlas24"x36", acrylic on panel, 2018. SOLD |  Hanami Blossom Drop24"x36", acrylic on panel, 2018. |  Athabasca Brush Fire36"x30", acrylic and oil on canvas, 2017. SOLD |
 Pangean Drift48"x30", acrylic on panel, 2017. SOLD |
Total Shift Show
At first the Shift in the Shift Show was just a chance to get a joke in.
Then it was about materials: I’ve recently moved from working almost exclusively on plywood to mixing in some pieces on canvas. It has been an adventure transitioning to the bounce and life that canvas has, and it has brought me back to working more with brushes; they just get along so well.
It wasn’t long, however, before it began to be about so much more – all the other shifts in the work and the world. The shift to the optimism of spring after a hard winter grind. The shift between depth and surface. The shift between intention and intuition. The shift from the private act of painting to public act of exhibition. The shift between this physical world, and the spiritual one right behind it.
I am excited about the way that a two-dimensional pursuit like painting can accommodate, illustrate and illuminate all of these shifts. Nothing is still. Everything shifts.
Gerrard Art Space, April 2018