West Gallery:
This exhibition by Toronto artist John Wilkinson features a series of recent, large scale paintings concerned with the interior spaces of the artist's studio. Through the study of light and atmosphere, his personal space is explored by the manipulation of the painterly surface. Colour seen is adapted and rendered across the surface to depict open and closed doorways set within the perspective interiors. Between the painter and the subject exists the pictorial frame; added to this are the intuitive gestures of an expressive personal vision for the viewer to stand before and contemplate.