ABOUT
I have been arranging photos in various sequences and patterns since the late 1970s. Although I have been formally educated (BA, BEd, MFA), I consider myself to be self-taught.
I was born in 1952 in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. My father was an avionics technician in the RCAF. Consequently, I grew up in many places in Europe and Canada. I moved to Toronto in 1979 and I have lived here ever since.
My work and I exist in time. My sense of time can be manipulated, but, no matter what, I am always in time. Maybe coping with being in time is what most defines my art.
Images below
serve as direct links to Gary’s books
Aside from the picture books Gary was working on, which are a mixed-media format of sequences of photographs and text, Gary has made large acrylic paintings (5′ x 7′), some traditional watercolor landscapes and a number of pen & ink book illustrations.
Within his 2-year long travel in the late 1970s around Europe and North Africa, he took many photographs. He even joined the (at the time very conservative) Edinburgh Photographic Society in Scotland, in order to use their darkroom while staying there for a number of months. Today, he still uses his photographs from that time in some of his picture books.
