Montreal Forum busy Corner 1960 Canvas Print

The first Montreal Forum, the icon of ice hockey, before it was rebuilt in 1968. The home of 25 Stanley Cups, on St. Catherine Street, corner of Atwater. The scene depicted is 1960, with the vehicles being late 1940's. After the Canadiens had a new arena built about 2 miles to the East, the relic was turned in to a multi use cinema complex, with various restaurants. But, Elvis and the hockey ghosts have left the building, never winning a Stanley cup in the 25 years since the move.

...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...