Rainbow Restaurant Candy Store Charron and Favard GooseVillage 1956 Canvas Print

A few years before this area of Montreal, GooseVillage, would disappear, under the treads of bulldozers, and jackhammers.The Irish, Italian, and French stores and homes would soon be just a memory. The wonder of beautification for Expo 67.The green 1950 Ford takes up space needed for the local street hockey game.Who remembers Rainbow's corner of Charron and Favard?

...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...