Renee's Pastry Notre Dame Lachine Canvas Print

From the time that Notre Dame Street in Lachine was a busy commercial venue. All kinds of small stores lined the street, theatres attracted the customers. Large supermarkets, and specialty stores. Then the street began to lose clientele, stores gradually closed. Once the decline began, it was very hard to stop and reverse. Lachine reminds me now of a ghost town from the Old West. Every so often, Lachine tries to re-vitalize the area. So far, no luck!

...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...