| Two T's Manitoulin |
| Image Dimensions 18" X 24" |
| Edition of 500 |
| $150. ea. |
Two T's Manitoulin is the first full colour print which I published. This
image tells the story of a fading past. Our old barns and historic vehicles
are quickly and silently returning to the landscape. I combined the image
of Jack Ingram's barn on Manitoulin Island with the image of two model T
Fords which I found years earlier, west of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.
My first antique car restoration project was a model T, tall coupe, of the
same vintage as the 1926/27 sedans shown in this print. These are
portrayed exactly as I found them sitting side by side. I chose to stop the
image at the edge of the cars, in the painting, to create the feeling to the
viewer, that you must walk between the cars to get into the picture. We
all would like to know what other treasures might be stored in Jack's
barn and the mental desire to get between the cars to check it out is
certainly there. You must also wonder what it was like on the farm when
the young farm kids cut the top off the T on the right to make a hot rod
and also added the red paint to the fender edges to race-it -up. They
must have spent hours buzzing around the farm yard imagining
themselves to be in the Indy 500.
image tells the story of a fading past. Our old barns and historic vehicles
are quickly and silently returning to the landscape. I combined the image
of Jack Ingram's barn on Manitoulin Island with the image of two model T
Fords which I found years earlier, west of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan.
My first antique car restoration project was a model T, tall coupe, of the
same vintage as the 1926/27 sedans shown in this print. These are
portrayed exactly as I found them sitting side by side. I chose to stop the
image at the edge of the cars, in the painting, to create the feeling to the
viewer, that you must walk between the cars to get into the picture. We
all would like to know what other treasures might be stored in Jack's
barn and the mental desire to get between the cars to check it out is
certainly there. You must also wonder what it was like on the farm when
the young farm kids cut the top off the T on the right to make a hot rod
and also added the red paint to the fender edges to race-it -up. They
must have spent hours buzzing around the farm yard imagining
themselves to be in the Indy 500.
