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Immediately Below: One of a series of oil on wood paintings depicting the back alley behind my home in  West End Toronto "Back Alley from Rooftop #2" - Hooley McLaughlin - this one was painting especially created for my granddaughter - 24" X 36 " - 2013

 

One of my sources of inspiration for landscape/cityscape paintings - Egon Schiele - see immediately below his "Houses on the Moldau, Krumau" – 1910

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Above: One of a series of drawings depicting The Ecstasy of the Blessed Ludovico Albertoni - Hooley McLaughlin Giclée Print from Charcoal Drawing, 2015, derived from the (1671-74) sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the San Francesco a Ripa church in Rome (see immediately below)

Also inspired by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt - see immediately below:

Egon Schiele - Masturbierendes Mädchen 1910 Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum

And below the Schiele - 

Gustav Klimt. Young girl masturbating 1913

 

 

 

Immediately Below: A detail from an Oil on Wood Painting depicting The Blessed Ludovico Albertoni - Hooley McLaughlin - 2014. 

 

Below: 

 Yamaryamu - O Mary! Bow Down to Your Lord! (3.43) - Oil on Wood - 36" X 36" - 2015 - Hooley McLaughlin

Sources of inspiration for the Virgin Mary in Bondage - See immediately below: 

“The Lady of Nazareth Chose to Play Along” Marilyn Artus, 2012, Giclée Printed Collage with Hand Embroidery and Acrylic

And below the Marilyn Artus see: The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul, about 1330, Bernardo Daddi. Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 47 7/8 x 44 1/2 in. - J. Paul Getty Museum (In this case, the bondage is implied by the control exercised by Aquinas and Paul who insisted on the concept of original sin and therefore on the need to imprison Mary to be impregnated by the deity itself.  Of course, bondage continues to this day in many of today's religious communities.

 

 

Other examples of landscape and buildingscape art pieces:

Back Alley from Roof # 1 - oil on wood - 40" X 40" - 2012

 

Back Alley from Roof # 3 - oil on wood - 36" X 36" - 2014

 

Night Garden by the Sea - oil sketch for future painting in Sanctuary Series - oil on canvas - 12" X 16" - 2015

 

 

Wetlands - oil sketch for future painting for Sanctuary Series - oil on canvas - 12" X 16" - 2015

 

 

San Martino, Burano, Venice - ink on paper - 5" X 7" - 2016

I produce charcoal drawings from a live model, followed by Giclée printing and at times the application of gold leaf.  I explore religious themes centred on Mary, Mother of Jesus, and other historical figures in Christianity such as The Blessed Ludovico Albertoni (as depicted in the sculpture by Bernini in the San Francesco de Ripa Church in Rome).  Sensuality, and inner feelings of desire, lust, and fear are depicted in order to express female strength and confusion in a world that commits acts of subjugation and violence against women.  

 

I also paint, oil on wood, again using a live model for all sessions  that contribute to the development of works that depict the human figure.  Other oil on wood paintings and charcoal drawings include explorations of trees and back alley scenes in Toronto.  The shapes and moods depicted in these cityscapes echo the human form in a subtle manner.

The drawings and paintings of the human form are made using more than one line of perspective.  I position myself within two feet of the model in order to fill my eye-space with the image I am rendering.  As I complete the image as a whole I adjust the image of the upper and lower parts of the body to accommodate my shifting position. The result is more like a sculpture than a drawing, in some respects.  Similar perspective experiments are made in the cityscapes.

 

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