new paintings completed at the start of summer.

Bust, oil on canvas, 16"x20"

"the hills", oil on canvas, 18"x24"

Mapping and colour effecting how a person or landscape or anything is read. A made up soft science based loosely on phrenology but with a mind/body connection. Colour contaminates and Goethe's ideas are still present. However, colour is also playing a role as the "Shaper" which provides meaning in addition to paint and the image.

three sisters, oil, collage, spray paint on canvas, 14"x18"

three sisters, first completion

red,white and blue, oil, spray paint on canvas, 16"x20"

from "The Shaper", by Wallace Stevens.

"Paul Rosenfeld was a shaper who lived a life of shaping, that is to say, a Schopfer, who lived for the sake of Schopfung. Perhaps there existed for him an ideal Schopfung, a world composed of music, but which did not whirl round in music alone; or of painting, but which did not expand in color and form alone; or of poetry, but which did not limit itself to the explication oprhique of the poet. But whether or not there was an ideal Schopfung, in which everything coalesced, toward which everything converged, the truth about him seem to be that he was incessantly engaged or involved or attracted by the activity of shaping."

Pertaining to the latest work, the portraits, the still life, everything in the last few months. SP

A few photos from the 2of2 Gallery show, April 2010

Link to show at 2of2 Gallery, Toronto, On

2 of 2 Gallery

DAVID MCDOUGALL & SHELLEY PENFOLD April 15 – May 22, 2010 Opening reception Thursday, April 15, 5-8 pm 2 of 2 Gallery 254 Niagara Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 2L8 tel: +416-591-6464 info@2of2gallery.com www.2of2gallery.com hours Wednesday - Saturday 12 noon - 5pm or by appointment

The Age Dependent, 2009, Hydrocal, H 48 x W 30 x L 24” Bouquet, oil on canvas, 30”x36”

2 of 2 Gallery | 254 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J 2L8 | 416-591-6464 | info@2of2gallery.com | www.2of2gallery.com

with the last series done, I'm on to making some new work and experimenting a little with colour and surface.

"palette painting", water soluble oil, spray paint on canvas, 20"x24"

Untitled, water soluble oil, spray paint on canvas, 16"x20"

Untitled, oil on canvas, 11"x14"

Untitled, water soluble oil and spray paint on canvas 16"x20"

untitled, 12"x12", water-soluble oil, spray paint, collage on canvas

untitled, 20"x24", water soluble oil on spray paint on canvas

untitled, 11"x14", water soluble oil on canvas

Untitled, acrylic on silver mylar, 16"x20"

few new works and some thoughts on the series so far...

"Hair Falling", oil on canvas, 18"x24"

"Between Waking", oil on canvas, 16"x20"

The series began as a continuation of an interest and further imagining of the mechanics of quantum atomic particle theory. The subject matter of central idea for the painting was determined ahead of time and then through the process of painting, I focused solely on isolating the idea, for example, smelling a bouquet of flowers, and let the painting as a whole become only about that idea. In particle theory, the entire universe is made of essentially the same particles containing similar information. As the paintings are continually worked the materiality of the paint acts as a conduit for spreading and carrying the same information all over the surface of the canvas.

The works in the series are representations into the idea of an inquiry. Subjectively, the concept is determined and what follows is a search for the way to best represent an idea in a manner that is universally recognized and presents a measurable success by the emotion and transfer of subjective recognition to a viewer. One of the findings of the inquiry is that the paint, as a kinetic particle, can continuously take shape to successfully represent an idea. Also, with some of the end points, after time, it is determined that the original inquiry wasn’t as visually appealing to the artist and the original idea morphs.