PORTRAITS and COMMISSIONS
Below are some paintings and drawings varying in size and price for ideas toward commission work. Message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more info, thanks.
An abstracted 20 x 16 inch oil and paint marker on panel exploring an image of the French painter, Édouard Vuillard, whose work I’ve long loved.
$1500
This portrait of Tony Dekker is featured as the album cover of the Great Lake Swimmers LP: “In Pieces: An Acoustic Retrospective”.
SOLD
A 48 x 48 painting is priced $5000.
Gracie in 70’s Shades (Version I), 2018. Oil on acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches.
SOLD
(A 48 x 48 inch piece is $5000)
I painted this 20 x 20 inch double portrait of my Mum & Dad when I was training at the Art Students League.
A painting this size is priced $1800 for one head, and a little more if two heads, depending on complexity. Thanks for looking.
This 72 x 48 inch oil painting, Red Forest is one based on my daughter, painted when she was this age. I’ve painted her so many times. Sometimes the painted figure in the painting looks like her, sometimes the figure becomes its own presence, like a new being born from the process.
SOLD
This 20 x 16 inch painting of my nephew is no longer available, but a painting this size is $1500.
One of a series of paintings with figures mostly seen from behind looking at a painting. Paintings within paintings…
This particular piece is 36 x 36 inches. It sold, but something else the same size is $3300.
SOLD
A 30 x 24 inch oil painting. A canvas this size is generally priced at $2600.
SOLD
A 36 x 36 inch single figure oil on acrylic painting. It came out of an experience during my time painting in one of the Niagara Artists Centre studios. This painting is no longer available, but another in this size is generally $3300.
SOLD
A darker painting with a lot of atmosphere and abstracted setting where the figure is a smaller but significant part of the composition. Paintings in this size of 30 x 40 inches are around $3400. This piece sold but gives more directions for paintings with a figure in an evocative environment.
SOLD
This small colourful head painted in 2017 is no longer available, but gives ideas for a small 12 x 9 inch piece priced at $700 with energetic brushstrokes and paint application.
SOLD
This 2021 painting based on British painter, Frank Auerbach is a 40 x 30 inch oil over acrylic on panel.
$3300
This painting is currently available. Please message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more info, thanks.
This 8 x 8 inch portrait of George Floyd that I painted in 2020. After it dried, I mailed the painting to the address of his family.
This large painting, Forest Skye, 72 x 42 inches is currently available at Canvas Gallery in Toronto.
A large full figure in an environment based on a nature setting pushed into atmospheric abstraction.