Montreal Forum 1960 Canvas Print

From an old black and white photo, the picture of the grand old lady of hockey, the Montreal Forum, evolved. On the corner of Atwater and St. Catharine, this home of hockey welcomed the greatest...Morenz, Richards, Harvey, Plante, Marshall, Talbot, Johnson etc, etc.No other sports palace compared to it; perhaps just the old Yankee Stadium.Painting was donated to a hospital fundraiser.

...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...