Oil and acrylic on panel, 30 × 30 inches.
Currently available. Please message me for more information.
This painting was re-worked several times over the course of several years. The sitting foreground figure is based on one of the figures in John Singer Sargent’s 1882 painting, The Daughters of Edward D. Boit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This has long been one of my favourite paintings, and so my painting shown here has become partly an homage to John Singer Sargent.
Oil and acrylic on panel, 24 × 18 inches.
This painting will be included in an upcoming exhibition at Salin des Pesquiers, Giens Peninsula on the south coast of France in September 2026. More details to come soon.
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My painting of Tony Dekker was commissioned for use as the album cover for the Great Lake Swimmers double LP, "In Pieces: An Acoustic Retrospective".
The original painting sold, but there’s a nice print of it on the cover of this album by the Great Lake Swimmers, along with some really fantastic music of course. Please give it a listen.
Oil on panel, 40 × 40 inches.
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My portrait of Tony Dekker which was used as the album cover for the Great Lake Swimmers double LP, "In Pieces: An Acoustic Retrospective".
Oil and acrylic on panel, 40 × 40 inches.
Currently available. Please email me at vermassa@gmail.com for info. Thanks for looking.
Oil, acrylic, and paint marker on canvas, 48 × 60 inches.
Currently available at Canvas Gallery in Toronto.
This canvas began as a live art demonstration for a group at Heartland Forest in Niagara during a workshop. I began adding the double figure and melding it into this background later in the studio. The graffiti-esque noodle motif began to grow as the composition dictated direction, and as the surrealist elements started coming together.
Oil on canvas, 24 × 24 inches.
This painting is currently available at Canvas Gallery in Toronto.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
You can see this painting hanging on the wall at bside artisan eyewear in downtown St. Catharines.
SOLD
Oil on canvas, 42 × 42 inches.
SOLD
This double portrait commission went through many stages to become what feels to me like a piece that I would have painted on my own without being commissioned, which is what the client was hoping for.
Oil on canvas, 24 × 24 inches.
This painting is currently available. Please message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more information, thanks.
Oil on canvas, 10 × 10 inches.
SOLD
Pencil, pen, and marker on split page spread in moleskine sketchbook for band, Road Waves release for new track, Cyan Wave, 16 ½ × 17 inches. Also used on their new album cover.
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Oil and acrylic on panel, 60 × 48 inches.
Currently available. Please email me at vermassa@gmail.com for more info.
Another painting that began as a horizontal piece, but that was then turned vertically and completely reworked. Elements of the original painting peek through in areas and helped guide the direction of this composition.
The head of the young girl poking through the elbow of the main figure was left in the new composition since it had me thinking of this as a sort of contemporary Kali figure, the fierce Hindu goddess of time, change, creation, and destruction. It felt appropriate to let the painting process keep going in this direction while I was feeling so disgusted with what was happening in the world. The cat was added as both compositional device and to help spread the word along these lines.
Oil on panel, 48 x 36 inches.
SOLD
Oil on panel, 60 x 48 inches.
Currently available. For more info, please email me at vermassa@gmail.com
This painting began as a horizontal piece with several swimmers depicted. I then reworked it by turning it to the vertical and adding the large figure in the meditation pose and embedding it in with the swimming figure in the top right. The abstracted figurative elements crunched into abstraction with partially hidden elements like the small paper boat add to the dream-like and transformative feel in this piece.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 inches.
SOLD
Another portrait commission that is now hanging in Southern California.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 × 40 inches.
SOLD
A recent portrait commission that is now hanging in Southern California.
Pencil, pen, and marker on paper, 6 ½ x 17 ½ inches.
SOLD
This drawing is one of three commissioned by Brock University for including in an online publication of a cooperation between Brock University's Research Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, and Archives/Special Collections.
"Walking with an Aeronaut" references a 1907 travel log written by French aviation pioneer, René Gasnier, on his account of the landscapes and industries of Niagara Falls. Translated into English by Nicholas Hauck. The French-language manuscript is a recent acquisition of Archives/Special Collections. Follow this link for the online publication:
Pencil, pen, and marker on paper, 18 × 10 ¼ inches.
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This drawing is one of three commissioned by Brock University for including in an online publication of a cooperation between Brock University's Research Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, and Archives/Special Collections.
"Walking with an Aeronaut" references a 1907 travel log written by French aviation pioneer, René Gasnier, on his account of the landscapes and industries of Niagara Falls. Translated into English by Nicholas Hauck. The French-language manuscript is a recent acquisition of Archives/Special Collections. Follow this link for the online publication:
Pencil, pen, and marker on paper, 16 × 6.5 inches.
This drawing is one of three commissioned by Brock University for including in an online publication of a cooperation between Brock University's Research Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, and Archives/Special Collections.
"Walking with an Aeronaut" references a 1907 travel log written by French aviation pioneer, René Gasnier, on his account of the landscapes and industries of Niagara Falls. Translated into English by Nicholas Hauck. The French-language manuscript is a recent acquisition of Archives/Special Collections. Follow this link for the online publication:
https://brocku.ca/miwsfpa/stac/research-centre-projects/
This portrait of René Gasnier is now held in the Special Collections and Archives at Brock University.
Oil on panel, 16 x 12 inches.
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Pencil, pen, marker, and acrylic on paper, 20 × 16 inches.
SOLD
A double portrait commission that is now hanging in Totnes, Devon in England.
Oil and acrylic on panel, 20 × 24 inches.
This painting is currently available. Please email me at vermassa@gmail.com for more information, thanks.
Oil and acrylic on panel, 40 × 60 inches.
This painting is currently available. Message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more info, thanks.
Oil on canvas, 14 × 14 inches. (portrait commission)
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Oil, acrylic, and paint marker on canvas, 42 × 42 inches.
This painting is currently available. Please message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more information. Thanks for looking.
Oil on canvas, 12 × 12 inches (portrait commission)
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Oil on canvas, 12 × 12 inches (portrait commission)
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Oil on canvas, 12 × 12 inches. (portrait commission)
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Oil on canvas, 14 × 14 inches.
This painting is currently available. Please message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more information, thanks.
Oil and acrylic on panel, 30 × 24 inches.
Currently available. Please message me at vermassa@gmail.com for more information. Thanks for looking.
I painted this abstracted portrait of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, along with the head study also shown in this gallery, while readingToulouse-Lautrec: A Life by Julia Frey.
Oil and acrylic on panel, 30 × 24 inches.
Currently available at Canvas Gallery
One of my favourite paintings at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is Milton Avery’s 1945 Bucolic Landscape. On one visit, as my daughter was studying this painting, I took a photograph which became the basis for my painting shown here, and my homage to Milton Avery.
Oil on panel, 40 x 40 inches.
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The paper boat motif has been showing up several times in my paintings lately as a symbol of the ephemeral and of becoming more present in life.