Percy Street
Percy Street
December 2008 | Acryclic on Canvas | 11″ x 14″
This is Percy Street in the Corktown neighbourhood of Toronto, looking south from King Street East. This street contains a small remnant of many Victorian row houses that were occupied by the original workers at the Distillery and other industrial factories located nearby along the waterfront of the eastern part of the city. Today it is one of the few privately maintained streets in the city, and is a bit of an anachronism as gentrification creeps ever closer [map].
This painting was my attempt at a looser and more “painterly” style, and while I like some parts of it, I’m not convinced that it is a success overall.
Posted January 7th, 2009 at 7:37pm