Albert Boucherie/Epicerie Notre Dame Lachine Canvas Print

Notre Dame was once a thriving town street in the community of Lachine, the first real commercial street going west from Montreal. The newer malls completely destroyed the viability of this main shopping strip.This painting shows a corner grocery/butcher Albert's in the 1970's, when the decline hadn't yet begun.Why the name Lachine? It was thought that the original village was actually China when discovered 400 years ago.

...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...