JACK’S GARDEN

RE:   JACK’S GARDEN, an on going series of acrylic paintings.

Jack Cassady’s “Jack’s Garden” is about color, nature up close, the art of gardening, nurturing, texture, and time.

The concept for the series originated in 1997.  The artist is interested in concept of realism turning, changing, and seeming to be abstract but actuality being real.   In this series Jack has come very close to his goal.  He has always been interested in photography and has experimented in various techniques.  This series relates to the use of macro photography, taking a small image and magnifying it. Blowing the image up, out of proportion, basically changing the original context.  With the use of a background texture, the image is painted on top, thus creating an abstract feeling to the image.  The images have an unusual sensual quality and the color is developed in many layers of transparency creating a natural and intense image.

Gardening is highly rewarding to Jack, being one with nature, creating and nurturing, planning and execution.  The artist lives in the Toronto Beaches and has a large city garden (large for Toronto that is); he spends a great deal of time working in it.  It has rocks, trees, ponds, sculptures and a variety of plants and shrubs.  Jack comes from a family of gardeners, both parents were very involved in their garden, and his mother who has passed was renown for her wonderful gardens back in Alberta.

The paintings are of various sizes, and have been exhibited in Toronto.