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I was approached by the founder of this high speed imaging company to paint something that would encapsulate the many areas of his company. This multi-image piece shows not only the products, the process, the people, but also the founder. For other multiple image pieces, see Spirits of Canada, Image #1106, also A Partnership (R.C.M.P.), Image #1462.

I greatly enjoyed pulling together the pieces of history from old photos to compose this large painting. On the left side are my good friends, Dave and Sally. I often prevail upon friends to pose and they graciously agree and I think, I hope, enjoy the process.

This painting was partially created in a meeting for a financial management company to demonstrate the idea of the custom approach of their business.

For 100 years St. Lawrence Starch prospered in Port Credit. I was commissioned by this firm to create a piece that would celebrate its connection to that town. Using archival material, I was able to create a scene during World War II when the company built and maintained a skating rink for the town.

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The theme, community service, is found at least four times in this “parade” theme. Motorcycle police with “want-to-be police”, seniors lending their interest to policing and to youth, fire fighters serving the community and supporting Muscular Dystrophy, and friendly clowns, all add up to a “beautiful” parade.

The “dirty thirties” reality of a job and survival, was the beginning of the first sixty years. In 1930, Edward Knechtel did not plan to become a grocer, but rather, needed a job to support his family. On the advice of his father, Edward Knechtel, or the “Cheeseman” as he was called, peddled sausage and cheese to local retail grocers in the same area as the Company services today. Since then, this one job has expanded from one person to over 275 people and from one company to three, and, from one 1926 Ford car made into a truck, to a fleet of twenty-six trucks. Unfortunately this company no longer exists having been absorbed into successive corporations.

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This portrait of an industrialist shows him in one of his factories. His wife insisted that because his management style was hands-on, this “in the shop” approach was more appropriate than an office portrait.

It was also a requirement that I include the parts shown on the display board at the left along with a special style of yellow storage boxes.

I painted this commissioned piece for Maple Lane Dairy, a company owned for over thirty years by my family. This is a most personal work as not only did my father drive a horse-drawn wagon but also as a child I spent time as a “runner” on just such a vehicle. This neighbourhood is created and does not really exist.

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This autumnal view of a corporate picnic displays the sense of family that is felt by employees of the company. Developed for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the ecological engineering corporation, this piece celebrates the success of their business. This is the most complex painting that I have ever done on commission.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police wanted a commissioned painting to celebrate “Canada 125” that would show some of their various activities across Canada. Every detachment, almost 800 across the country, now is home to one of these reproductions.