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Micks top ten paintings - updated!!!
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This is random list that spot-lights important paintings that I have created over the last twenty years
- as selected by me, Mick Tilman... Note old text is in blue and updated is in yellow...
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Haywheels - (Glenarm, ON - near Orillia - off of Durham road 15) - Medium: Ink, Acrylic, Oil Pastel,
Pencil Crayon and Clear Gel on Watercolour Paper - Size: 9" x 12" SOLD
This is full of wonderful
movement and crossmovement - The wind, the wheels, the grass and haywheels. Just look at it and you might
get it - Sold this one in the McMichael - I'd like to get back in there again for a show....
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August Sundown - Perch Point - Percy Lake, Haliburton, ON, August 2005, Acrylic, Ink, Pencil
and Watercolour on Watercolour paper - 9" x 12" - ($600.00) I drive my boat past this point a
lot and watch the perch jump - they used to be really abundant in this lake - about 20 years ago - but
were overfished and chased out by the bass - this sundown kicks butt - this point is being surveyed now
and will probably be for sale in 2010 - you can throw my ashes off this point and have K.D. Lang sing
my eulogy.
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Bathurst Farm - 2001 - 10" x 11" - I started really getting excited about farm landscapes - there
seems to be all kinds of wonderful sections to explore.... This Farm is called "Norse Ridge Farm" - its
on Bathurst just before Mullock in Aurora - I drive by it every day on my way to work... This is a
humble painting of a place that is getting swallowed up quickly!!!
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Eagle Lake Road - 12" x 15" - 2000 - this one is probably my second best landscape to date -
yes I like it - The scene is important to me... I've considered this a great scene that must be painted
- Eagle Lake Road in Haliburton... This Painting was chosen for the Varley Gallery Juried Show in 2001...
(Sold) This scene has changed only slightly over the 20 years that I have known it - recently the dam
has been altered - of course the beavers are always changing the landscape of the pond to the right -
which is barely shown in this painting. more
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Fish Tales - March 2003, 18" x 24" - Ink and Acrylic on Watercolour paper - $1000.00 I'm
not sure that I'd even sell it for a G. This painting flows so well and opened up the door for some exploratory
work in digital media. I love fish, and yes I love fishin'. Its peaceful and easy going - most of the
time. Bonding too. I did a fish a day for about a week and boom - put together well like puzzle peices
- love the negative space in this one.
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A Live Snapping Turtle Is Land - 1994 - 18" x 24" - this painting is one of my first "serious"
paintings - I combined early infulences of Aboriginal Art and the Group of Seven - these are my Tom Thomson
Trees. I also like the idea of 'mythical' creation in this image...(SOLD) - This one is solid
- it is strong - it is at ease though - land and nature combined - and it might snap back...
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Confide Frogs - 1996 - 12" x 15" - this painting shows my developed fragmentation style - it is
quite confident in this one - the placement of shapes is wonderful in this peice as well as the negative
space. Although this is a simple theme it seems to transcend beyond just a few frogs for me... This
one really fermented my fragmenting style - it really took off after that - and then I got sick of painting
fragmented animals - after about 8 years of doing them I went into landscapes - which I always loved,
but really couldn't do to my satisfaction - until about 1999...
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Kingfisher - 1997 - 18" x 24" - ink, acrylic, watercolour, silver leaf and sparkles on watercolour
paper. (Not for sale) This is probably my best bird - and I have done many - Its birds, fish and
bison I love doing the most - of the animals... I put this up in my sons room - he points at it and
says "Dird, Dird, Dird!!!!" - and thats why its not for sale - it was his first word - and oh ya - the
kingfisher is by and far my favourite bird...
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SynchroPrimary - 2003 -enter the new milenium - I have toiled with digital art for a few years and this
is the one that really started it all. The figure was drawn in old fashion pen and ink and then reversed
and backgrounds painted in photoshop - this is a departure but also an arrival of a new style. There
still is my lovely primative, but shit you gotta change. Also an influence is being an art teacher and
doing bloody colour theory. This one has a late 60's and modern feel to it all at once.
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Great Wheel of Wyoming - 1993 - 18" x 24" - Ink on W/C paper ($400.00) click here to spin
This one was one of my first Natural Surrealism works. It's about sitting around in Gardiner with the
best friends you've got. Theres a piano playin ragtime - a guitar strummin and a banjo outta tune but
not outta sight... miss you Randy...
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The Find - Acoustic Guitar - 1990 - inspired by a hike in Yellowstone - this guitar has been with me
for almost 30years!!!! I recently gave this guitar some TLC - new bone nut and saddle that I carved
out of bison bones. Also a K and K style pick up - which I am not happy with - should have gone LR Baggs
Ibeam...
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Did you notice there were eleven ???
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