Will summer ever REALLY be here? This painting was made years ago shortly after I moved to Montreal, or moved back to Montreal to be more precise. There were a few things that struck me about Montreal summer aside from the surprising heat and humidity: the crowds of people at the Jazz Festival, at Mont Royale Tam tam festival, the sidewalk sales, and the bustling old port. And to get there, everyone crams onto the metro system and buses. The painting shows these aspects in an abstract surrealism, at the bottom the crowds and the metro cars, in the middle a staircase leading up to the events: top left the Jazz Fest complete with an acrobatic busker, and top right the tam tam fest with pungent aromas wafting in the air. In the center top portion there is a depiction of Lac Mephremagog which is a small town in the Eastern Townships where Montrealers and tourists go to visit, and in the side left middle region there is a little stone archway with a person cross-country skiing in the winter. The cross in the top is the famous cross on top of the mountain, my dad and I went skiing around it once. On the back of my painting rack I named this one 'Summer Scene', I actually took it off the rack before it was ever named or signed because I didn't think that it was finished enough, but wanted to move on to the next painting. So this year I named and signed it with the help of Cilei, we decided to frame it and hang it up in the condo.
22 x 30" cold press watercolour, 2006
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