Street Hockey Depanneur Lalonde Notre Dame St. Henri Canvas Print

On a section in St. Henri, along Notre Dame Street, stores still like like the 1930's and 1940's.The splashed on blue and white paint still shows on the wooden window trim.Kids still play on the snow covered streets and sidewalks, and dogs still do what dogs do.It won't be long until the gentrification that began in the eastern parts of the street creeps down to this area.

...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...