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Joe: $35! $35
He had to pay for the meal, the flower, everything, you know?
Joe: And the ticket!
And the ticket now! Look at that beauty. Boyfriend: (despondent) Thank you. Thank you. (laughter)
Happy Valentine's Day. Thanks. Joe: You too!
Bye!
Assemblage drawing. Start with an image, cut up older works and I will assemble back into the new ones.
So, this is drawn directly on the mylar and then this is assembled in from another painting.
This collaged in so having a sharp edge.
Then another area here where I would like you to have the allusion that it actually is part of the piece.
The content is grief, right. And I think that is something everyone can relate to.
And I would really like that a viewer puts their own story to it.
And they are meant to be really kind of big and aggressive and moody and...
Hoping to evoke a little bit of a reaction.
I was scared of him when I told her. My best friend's boyfriend. .
And then he asked me to kiss. Then he pulled out a gun.
And he bet her that he could get me into bed.
And when I would not and pretty much laughed in his face still not thinking he was a threat...
...he put a fork to my stomach.
I remember even when I was 18, 19 the teachers in my university said I was a little too colourful and that I should tone it down. .
But, um, good thing I have not because it seems to be quite popular.
I will prepare like ten canvasses at once.
I will do the primary coat and I will leave them out so that the shapes are with me so I am kind of seeing the shapes.
And then eventually as I am developing...as I am printing off my reference photos and things like that,
I will just look and I will start and...sometimes I start 4 or 5 at a time.
I just chalk them all in and I just get going.
And that is the time when the next...that morn...that night I have a hard time sleeping
because I am so excited about getting back to the studio the next day.
(laughter) Hello! (laughter)
Friends of ours, and they were very hippie, like barefoot wedding the whole nine yards.
And the reception was in the forest.
I took the photo lying in the chaise longue up.
So that one is called Freya's wedding because Freya was the bride.
Joe: Sorry to ask you to move... Patron 1: Oh yeah that is ok.
Joe: I was just told the story about this painting so I thought I would... Patron 1: Freya's wedding. Patron 2: Is it from Freya's wedding?
Patron 1: Yeah Patron 2: Yes? Awesome. Patron 3: That's cool.
Joe: You...do you know Freya? Patron 2: I do know Freya. Joe: You know Freya?? Patron 2: I know Freya!
Joe: You know Freya too?? We do yeah. We went to school with her. Joe: Oh neat!
Her and her husband are fantastic people.
Patron 1: Now they are gone. Where? Vancouver now right? Patron 1: Yeah then Australia. And then Australia yeah.
She is Australian. She moved here years ago and then they are going back.
Joe: Well, I heard she was so inspired from this at Freya's wedding, took a photo of this and inspired this painting.
I happened to be one of the waiters at Freya's wedding. Patron 2: (laughter) Were you really? Joe: No way?!
I was a guest and then her Mother handed me a tray of food and said, "here go pass this out". (laughter)
So I ended up spending most of the afternoon handing out food to people.
Joe: You were working at Freya's wedding even though you were a guest?
Yeah. Joe: Nice. That's just the kind of guy I am.
Joe: That was your gift to Freya.
Street Person: (coughing) That is worth a $300 hair cut.
Joe: This is Eileen... Eileen: Shannon. .
They have supplied an iPad. .
The original brushes app was the one that David Hockney used when he did and still does paintings on the iPad.
These are remixed paintings from quite well known works.
His show was a series of iPads that played the paintings as you made them.
I went to Yorkshire (laughing) and visited the area where David Hockney did a lot of his landscapes.
People who know Hockney that is my photo of his tree tunnel.
And he has done multiple paintings of that.
I was there on a dull day and what I saw was this
based on my image when I turned around and looked the other way.
Eileen: Just watch (laughter)
Eileen: Now I started off with fairly opaque blocks because I wanted to get a sense of the composition.
Eileen: Now this is all going to change and disappear because I decided to put my first tree in because I love trees.
Eileen: So the tree is in and that one is in. Did you see what happened? Joe: Yeah.
Eileen: They went. They will come back.
Eileen: That way you can draw these little teeny weeny trees and give them character and then place them into the landscape.
Eileen: I have drawn a lot of trees.
Eileen: This was an experiment that did not work.
Eileen: So I just eventually got rid of it.
Eileen: You will see it will disappear all together.
Eileen: Because I realized those leaves were just too thick and they just did not work.
Eileen: But the fuzzy...there is a brush that does sort of a fuzzy brush that I used to make the foliage.
Eileen: And it is still going so do not give up just yet
Eileen: because I am still making a few changes here and there.
Eileen: Deepening some shadows. Just detail.
Eileen: Putting some more shading in the fields and what not. I think it is done.
Because you can use this anywhere
I have done more painting in the last two years than I probably done in the previous ten.
Joe: Wow Because I could.
I did not have to go into a studio. I did not have to mix paint. I did not have to wash brushes.
Just have fun basically.
These ones were taken at the Royal Botanical garden. .
And I was going there on Mother's Day with my daughter and my Mom. .
So it was like a three generation Mother's Day.
And, I like the combination of man made structure, particularly metal or glass,
with nature growing around it.
I like the way things can grow out of pavement and concrete
and out of brick walls.
So I was just sort of looking for texture and form that way.
So these are just different snapshots I took throughout the day
where I could see that happening.
Where nature is overcoming where there is a man made structure put into the ground.
And I just thought it was so beautiful.
The texture and the combination. The contrast.
It is like the garden is overcoming our imposed structures
and becoming wild again.
It is the reclamation of nature. It is just its own wild thing.
I am fascinated with the Andromeda galaxy ...
which is the galaxy that you can see in our night sky with the naked eye.
It is our closest neighbour.
Interesting thoughts about what it would be like to go to another place like that.
Gives me an opportunity to make kind of wonky sculpture about
travelling through time and space.
The viewer has to actually go down the stairs into the other gallery as well.
So they have to do a little bit of a climb up and down to experience the piece properly.
The spiral of animals all waiting in line following turtle.
In native legends the shell of the turtle represents mother earth
to lead the animals.
As you take the journey with the animals
they start climbing a little wire ladder
that winds its way up through the whole sculpture
through three separate segments.
You start climbing the ladder
and first of all you have to pass up through
Earth's atmosphere, and clouds, and weather.
Things that we are sort of familiar with.
Just going to this beautiful place in the sky
and the notion of taking a lot of time.
After you finish that journey you take another
step up the ladder and you arrive in the middle segment here.
which I think of as the solar system.
So, I represented that just pretty simply with different beads.
As you progress through our solar system
your next step on the ladder takes you
to that big dark void between our
comfortable solar system and the Andromeda galaxy.
Thinking about the notion of condensing something so big
in time and space, that it is really almost beyond human comprehension,
into something that can be sort of examined in the gallery through the lens of imagination.
through the lens of imagination.
Brian: I take things that people have discarded
Brian: and I make an amalgam out of them. .
Brian: It is kind of a rebirth.
Brian: Regardless if people do not like your sculpture or like it
Brian: you can still plug it in and it will light up your home.
Brian: If the electricity went out you can still light the tea lights and get some light out of it.
Brian: You find something that has a texture
Brian: that has a patina that is really difficult to recreate
if you were to do it. If you started out with a raw product
and produced the same kind of patina or the same texture
and was left by the side of the road
for most people it has no longer any value.
I would not say I have proven that it does
but it tends to lend itself quite easily to become a useful object.
Whether it is just something you appreciate by looking at it.
The shadow on the wall.
And that is something that just happens by plugging it in.
It was not intentional. It is an aura. A halo.
It is its own religion. Its own god.
Joe: Upper Canada Lager. Brian: Endorsed by The Pogues.
Apparently the lager is The Pogues favourite Canadian beer.
Shane MacGowan swears by it.
Joe: Well here is the artist. Here we are with Shawn Dall. Shawn: Hello. .
Well I am a mixed media artist so I do a bunch of different mediums.
These pieces up here fractal art. So this is a 3D fractal.
You use a program that uses a bunch of mathematical equations
to basically mould pixels into a geometric shape
and then basically uses that shape and mirrors it all around
creating a 2D or 3D shape.
I have about 20 to 30 of those online as well that I have done in all different colours and styles.
So this piece here is tattoo work.
This one took quite a few years to do actually just because
I did it on and off when I felt like it
and it involved quite a lot of detail.
Put a little person at the bottom just for emphasis
which kind of shows scale so actually once you see that
you see it is quite a big dragon.
This piece is Montreal.
So I take a photograph and I will edit it until it looks somewhat like a painting.
Subconscious art. I actually call it chaos art.
You take a piece of paper. You close your eyes.
Take the pencil and you basically think of an emotion
and you start drawing all over the paper
and you let your subconscious energy flow through your arm.
Then you open your eyes and look at what you see.
You start colouring and basically it comes out by on its own.
I don't really have much control over what it looks like in the end
but in the end it is actually a pretty impressive piece.
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Singer: Let us hope the City of Hamilton picks that song up (laughter) .