This Kitchener neighbourhood provides a view back to my childhood, having grown up in a similar area where homemade structures such as garages, fences and lean-tos were common. Changes were made to properties before the days of building permits and other rules. This speaks to me of a time when kids roamed freely around their neighbourhood.

This painting originated from one of my older photos, and quite honestly, I cannot remember precisely where it was that I took this shot, although I know it was in Kitchener.

Using several winter photos of this back lane from my files, I created this view just off Peter Street in Kitchener. Freshly ploughed snow covers up any abandoned bits and pieces so common in such an area.

When I was an art student in Toronto in the 1960s, the back lanes around the art college became my studio, providing endless subjects for required projects. I developed a real affection for those out of the way lanes.

This painting, one of six produced for the Rogers Television Cable 20 series My View, was I think my favourite.

This view was inspired by the beauty of the lights on the wet street as I made my way home from the Duke of Wellington, my local pub. It is rather strange that I had not considered painting such a scene of King Street in Waterloo before. Doesn't it remind you of the many Paris street scenes that you have seen using the shiny street to reflect the lights? In the background you can see the Bauer Lofts.

See also Farmer's Market, Image # 0764.

I have become intrigued by the way snow unifies a view such as this street near my house in uptown Waterloo. Another appeal of this scene is the older neighbourhood like the one in which I grew up in what was then downtown Waterloo.

I have become quite enamored with the way snow unifies a scene. This small piece of backyard scenery reminds me of the work of a British artist, Ken Howard. Because of our interest in the U.K. and therefore much time spent there, I have been influenced by many of the Royal Academy artists.

Snow provides a unifying factor to this scene which is a random collectiion of garages and outbuildings on a small lane near Sole Restaurant in Waterloo. I was drawn to this subject because of the many paintings of the alleys in Toronto that I painted while a student at the Ontario College of Art.

This view is from Willow Street in Waterloo, just down the block from my former gallery. The path beside the railroad tracks is well travelled. There are only two trains a day on this line which winds past the Waterloo Square on its way to Elmira. This corridor into the uptown has become a quiet shortcut and in my view a very pretty one. I was interested in drawing the viewer's eye to the old train station which is now an upmarket haberdashery.

Waterloo, Ontario