Places

Theo’s paintings of places vary considerably as he filters landscapes, seascapes, and townscapes with imagination, using different media and techniques. Most below are of Vancouver Island, BC, his home. Below: Vancouver Island in oils, acrylics, and watercolours. Townscapes: villages, cities, here especially Romania. Guatemala: impressions. Vancouver Island LATEST: Below are two watercolours painted July 2026…

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People

The category “People” in this website encompasses portraits, impressions, and interpretive and playful visions. Of the ones available here, a few are oil paintings but more are acrylics or watercolours. Historically, public interest in painting has broadly shifted from portraits to landscapes and possibly abstracts. However, in the past two or three years, Theo has…

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Stories

Human beings are intuitive storytellers. If you present people with an enticing image of a place or an action, they’ll leap — before conscious thought — to interpretations, sequences, explanations. Some images, though, particularly invite narration either because they tap into traditional stories or…or the opposite…because they’re quirky or whimsical, stirring imaginative associations and often…

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Past Paintings: archive

The paintings on this page are not for sale, unlike those on Places, People, and Stories. Theo has said goodbye to all of the paintings shown below — given them, donated them to good causes for their fundraising, or sold them to donate the proceeds to charity. The collection in the gallery here is not…

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