Update: It's been crickets here for the past 8 years, almost to the day. For the last five I've been working on a book project: The Imperial Japanese Army Volumes 1 and 2, which, happy to say, are now in print. 

Officially they are known to the world as:

Title: The Imperial Japanese Army Volume 1, Japan, the Annexed Territories and Manchuria

Author: Roderick S. Grigor

Publisher: Paper Blossom Books

Year: December 2020

Language: English

ISBN 978-1-7772728-2-1 (eBook) 

ISBN 978-1-7772728-0-7 (paperback)

Softcover edition: 397 pages

Title: The Imperial Japanese Army Volume 2, Conquest and Occupation 1941 to 1945

Author: Roderick S. Grigor

Publisher: Paper Blossom Books

Year: December 2020

Language: English

ISBN 978-1-7772728-3-8 (eBook)

ISBN 978-1-7772728-1-4 (paperback)

Softcover edition: 348

Take a trip through Japan, the territories and occupied lands of the Imperial Japanese Empire as it existed between 1941 and 1945. This is a reference work that takes an unprecedented look into closely held secrets of the Imperial Army, see it as never before.
Includes many original maps and illustrations.

Available from Amazon

Solo Exhibition at Walnut Contemporary Gallery on September 5th.

The opening is coming up fast. I really like the management and staff at this happening young gallery. This will be the gallery's one year anniversary show and I'm proud and grateful for the invitation to participate! 

Y'all come on by for a visit now, y'hear. 

http://www.walnutcontemporary.com/

"Crushed Cans", 50"w X 40"h, acrylic on canvas, 2012-13.

"General Electric Landscape", 38"w X 42"h, acrylic on canvas, 2012.

Two Cans

"Two Cans", 50" X 32", acrylic on canvas, 2011.

Cans Continued...

"Spidey Can", 40" X 44", acrylic on canvas, 2011.

"Roadkill", 30" X 46", acrylic on canvas, 2010.

"Canada", 30" X 48", acrylic on canvas, 2010.

More or less recent paintings. Continuing along with the theme of cans that have been transformed by a traumatic encounter. The "Roadkill" painting was added again as this image is a much better representation of the original.

'Road Kill', the Slow Reveal

I tend to follow the same process with each painting. The drawing is done on tracing paper using a grid then transfered to canvas. Every step following that is detailed above.

Apologies for the really bad photos but our little digital camera is not kind to large flat surfaces (I still use film). Promise a good image of this and others when I find a way to do them justice.

The painting is called 'Road Kill', 46" X 30", acrylic on canvas, ca. 2010.