Originals

The God of the Sea
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

The Father of the Gods
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2023.

The Moment Before the Decision
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

A Spider, in Miniature
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

The God of Light, in Profile
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

A Bat, in Miniature
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

The Personification of Strength
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

A fistful of green grapes crowded into a glass jar, seen through the distortion of the glass — the fruit half-dissolving into light and thick paint. A quiet still life worked alla prima on a 5×5 canvas, where the humblest subject gets the full attention of the brush. Oil on canvas · 5 × 5 in · 2024. Original, one of a kind, from the B-Sides miniatures. Ships from the studio in Toronto — free in Canada, $25 to the US.

Four Tomatoes, in Glass
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

The painter's own tools, painted: two oil tubes on a dark table, one standing, one spent and curling on its side, catching a single raking light. A small self-portrait by other means — the material that makes every other painting, given its own 5×5 stage. Oil on canvas · 5 × 5 in · 2024. Original, one of a kind, from the B-Sides miniatures. Ships from the studio in Toronto — free in Canada, $25 to the US.

Two poppies flare out of pure black, petals built in layered reds and pinks with a bright bruise of gold at each center. All the drama of a much larger painting compressed into 5×5 — light, bloom, and dark, nothing else in the room. Oil on canvas · 5 × 5 in · 2024. Original, one of a kind, from the B-Sides miniatures. Ships from the studio in Toronto — free in Canada, $25 to the US.

A Blue Butterfly, in Miniature
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

A Green Butterfly, in Miniature
Oil on Canvas 5x5. 2024.

An Orange Butterfly, in Miniature
Oil on Canvas 8x8. 2024.

A Spix's macaw caught mid-wingbeat against solid black, painted almost entirely in blue and white — the bird Brazil worked so hard to bring back from zero in the wild. The feathers are built in loaded, directional strokes that leave the brush's path fully visible, so the wings still look like they're moving. No branch, no cage, just flight against darkness.

Two hummingbirds meet beak to beak in the dark — one hangs head-down from the top of the sheet, the other rises to meet it — emerald, teal and cobalt worked wet-into-wet, tails fanned out in sharp diagonal strokes. No branch, no cage: just the meeting itself, suspended against solid black.

A close, cropped wall of peacock eyes — no bird, just the pattern repeating to the edges of the sheet, teal and violet-black feathering built up in dense overlapping strokes around each eye of red and indigo. Read as pure ornament, cover to cover.

A bird's head in profile, crowned with a fan of orange-red plumage against solid black — the crest painted so theatrically it reads more like a costume than feathers, which is exactly the tension the title names: the perfection of the image and its unreality sitting side by side. A single bright red ring around the eye is the only soft passage in an otherwise graphic, high-contrast painting.

The tuiuiu — the jabiru stork that stands as the emblem of Brazil's Pantanal — painted head and shoulders, black head and dagger bill turned in profile, a wide red collar cutting across white plumage worked in loose, dry-brush strokes. Regal and a little absurd at once, the way herons always are up close.

The painter's own tools, painted: two oil tubes on a dark table, one standing, one spent and curling on its side, catching a single raking light. A small self-portrait by other means — the material that makes every other painting, given its own 5×5 stage. Oil on canvas · 5 × 5 in · 2024. Original, one of a kind, from the B-Sides miniatures. Ships from the studio in Toronto — free in Canada, $25 to the US.