“Arisen”
Watercolour
Conservation Clear glass, archival mat & backing
30 x 41.5” (43.5 x 55"” Framed)
$8500

Winner of the CSPWC Doris McCarthy Award, July, 2021, the top award granted at “Beyond the Edge”, an adjudicated exhibition open to elected members of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC)

April 2022: The American Watercolor Society has accepted “Arisen” into its 155th Annual International exhibition, held at the Salmagundi club in New York City, opening April 23.

We happened upon this soaring and dilapidated space in Budapest while travelling, squeezing through an askew sheet of plywood covering a doorway to find an abandoned shopping galleria (Párisi Udvar, built in 1817.) The richness of architectural detail and the fact it was abandoned were bewildering. The building has now been purchased by a luxury hotel and undergone a renaissance, restored to its former glory. My goal with this painting was to create an atmosphere of mystery, timelessness, and a sense of hope in rebuilding. I am experimenting here with contrasting precise detail with completely abstract passages which suggest steam rising to the top reaches of the stained glass cupola. Sun optimistically streams through the glass leading the eye upwards from the dark reaches of the gritty street level.