Take a garden scene with something puzzling happening in it - a frog with a geyser of water spouting from a raised hand; faeries, unicorns, a goat; Castro at Table Eating Lunch With Friends; Miss Muffet, a dead robin upended branches of flowers - images that recall half-remembered quotations from a nursery rhyme or a children's book, and what have you got - painting aficionados know: a painting by Michael Reeves

Reeves is a contrary virtuoso, each painting carries some record of his love of Canadian subjects. It is in his subjects, the way he sets his scenes and in the rich colour of his palate.

Reeves' images become splendidly disobedient. Flowers are like goldfish. In one painting the even become goldfish . . .

Each painting exists in its own lyrical fantasy world, seen together the works capture the complexity and depths of Reeves' ceaseless improvisations.'

From an article by Joan Murray, Director of the McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.

Michael's paintings are complimented by the wild and imaginative sculptures of Gregory Robins and John Wiles.

  
Red Watering Can #258 (36 x 36)

Michael Reeves

 

Latitude 44 2900 Dundas St. West Toronto in the Historic Junction.
 

The Michael Reeves, Mariposa County exhibit from Jan 13 until the end of February -- so drop in and appreciate a breath of spring in the midst of winter