have always tried to be able to verbally some what describe what we are going thru in and with our work. had occasion to seriously rethink or at least update our thinking about our work and did so going all the way back to our earliest days when we first began painting when the work was all watecolour on paper.

an early pre infinity rings,  we meditated on how water looked moving downstream on the eramosa river;  ‘infinity reflected 30×22  watercolour on arches paper

breaking this down into sections let me restart at the beginning, even though it is so far back even  high flying drone up would not see the source.

Micheal Zarowsky graduated with a B.A in Philosophy from York University, and has over forty years of experience as a professional artist with over 70 awards including Best Watercolour Award (KPMG Foundation) at the 2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.

we never went into how and why i became an artist, and how Wendy interwove her art experiences and ability to see / look with my art so much so that the work we come up shows as an daylong everyday integrative interplay between the two of us.

we met at uni and began a journey that is still as fresh today as back then.

” I never had any lack of confidence in my ability to draw. As just another way to express myself, it started out as a way to occupy idle time. My first exhibition was of drawings at age eleven. Finding nothing of interest in the world beyond continuing idle time, scared the rational being out of me, so I went and studied philosophy and psychology and found I was able to re-organize and develop my thinking which in turn opened up the parameters of my world in new ways; I kinda made room for the unexpected.”      

      ‘Today painting is a spiritual process connecting me to the world.’

              “My return, after university, if it was a return to painting, was a return to mystery in the sense that losing myself in the work takes me into my unknown as much as I take it. Not knowing any limits, while searching for a way to express myself through painting, I experimented and as much as through trial and error, as coming to understand how I see things pushed beyond the boundaries of what could be done with the watercolour medium.”

jumping ahead an artist friend wrote on our lateral move from only works on paper to include works on panel.

“a unique watercolour artist through the nature of his technique. In working directly on gessoed panels and finishing his water-colours with protective varnish, he has created an innovative way of displaying and protecting this traditional medium. By working on panels instead of paper, he has created a look of directness, solidity in his watercolours that is not often associated with watercolour art, so often characterized by softness and transparency. By applying the paint directly over the surface of the gesso Zarowsky is painting against a resistant surface, making his painting as much about the process of discovery of the natural world as it is with inventiveness and exploration of new possibilities for watercolour media.”

not sure how long a post ought be and still be readable / more on this in the next post.