St. Augustin 1945 Tin Flute St. Henri Canvas Print

From the St. Henri novel, The Tin Flute, by Gabrielle Roy, 1945, this tiny house was and is, an actual house, The narrow house would shake as the steam locomotives would pull heavy loads for the war effort.In front is a 1945 Ford pickup, with the usual crowd of kids playing street hockey, next to the tracks.

...I enjoy painting in what I call ,"Pseudo naive cartoon Abstractism", featuring bright colours in very simplistic forms. A happy feeling exudes from my works as they are all based on features from the present and past. Usually a car or bicycle shows up somewhere in the picture. I work only in acrylics with black pencil art markers. I took a 1 year fine arts university course back in 1964, and then dropped it completely until 10 years ago. My works have gone in 2 directions: the landmark paintings, and the everyday situations featuring "little people". People tell me they can "connect" with my historical view of the passing scene. Signs and commercial store fronts are a key to my paintings.Take a close look at the signs...often a little...