Collected
I’ve started collecting paintings and objects from second hand stores, garage sales, and rummage sales. I see my collecting as a temporary waystation for handmade and artist-made items that have lost their original context but not their meaning. These objects—wooden toys, pottery, paintings, and artifacts—are held for a time, appreciated for their care and intention, and then allowed to continue on to new homes.
Each piece is part of an ongoing story. My role is not to collect permanently, but to witness, preserve, and pass along.
Ferdinand Friedl
A quiet prairie barn, painted in Edmonton in 1971 and sold through a local art shop. This small work by Ferdinand Friedl is less about nostalgia than it is about presence — a record of how art circulated, what it depicted, and how everyday landscapes were once brought home and lived with.
B. Long
A winding path, a quiet cabin, and trees glowing at the edge of winter—signed B. Long, and painted with a calm, deliberate attention that rewards time spent looking.
Reuben Axel Carlson
A quiet mountain lake, painted by someone who lived close enough to return again and again. This mid-century landscape by Reuben Carlson reflects a regional practice rooted in familiarity, observation, and place — not spectacle, but presence.
Stanley C. Riviere
A winding road, autumn light, and a paper trail that refuses to disappear. This 1951 exhibition painting by Stanley C. Riviere reminds us that mid-century Canada quietly celebrated everyday creativity — and that those stories are still worth holding onto.
Lorne Presniak
A signed landscape by Lorne Presniak, depicting a rural creek, ducks, and autumn trees. A quietly composed scene preserved without formal record beyond the name on the canvas.
Jane Cain
A still life signed Jane Cain, carrying both an artist’s name and a traceable chain of ownership. Quietly domestic, carefully composed, and possibly connected to a Calgary-based woman artist whose work lived outside public record.
E. Robinson
Two wood-panel landscapes by E. Robinson, each named and rooted in the Fraser Canyon. Steamboat Rock and Mt. Skihist, painted with weight, texture, and a clear commitment to place.
E. Hogg
Signed E. Hogg and otherwise undocumented, this modest landscape captures a place known through daily life. A fragment of regional painting history that survives without a name attached to it.