I’m currently in Canada having just completed a semester at Ontario College of Art and Design. This has been very useful for my practice. I’ve expanded into abstraction and watercolour as media, as well as experimenting with strip cartoons and video for specific works.
I also researched the impact of the Scots coming to Canada in the 17th Century. Not many Torontonians know who Henry Dundas Lord Melville was, yet Dundas Street is a major thoroughfare. The fact that he never came to Canada, held up the abolition of slavery in the UK by about 30 years and stole large sums of money when Minister of War from public coffers is unknown here. We also robbed the First Nations of assets and pride, made our second sons of minor aristocracy “ Barons of Nova Scotia “ and did little to be proud of.
All interesting veins to mine when I return home