"In this new series of oil paintings my sources are my home in Toronto as well as a house that I live in when I’m in Newfoundland. The show’s title is one of the definitions of the word survey because I felt I was surveying my domain while I was painting.  Working from views both inside the house and outside from my second floor studio window, I scanned spaces and measured distances in a detached way. Then I mixed the interior and exterior views together.   As the paintings evolved I realized a domestic space is about the outside as well as the inside of a home and is a combination of what one sees and what one knows is there.

Still lifes and interiors have always had an influence on my work.   A home is an important place to me; a sanctuary, and I like my house.  In these new pieces I painted areas that interested me but sometimes I’d paint things because other people pointed them out to me and said, “You should paint that”.  Since I made the interior of my house, it was a logical step that by painting it I could make something out of it.   However I wanted to disrupt the representation of these scenes by bringing in some abstraction and by incorporating passages of coloured grids from some of my earlier paintings...

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