Mary Harman: Selected Paintings

     Arrival      24 x 36" 

 

The following are grouped by subject matter or dates, most have an architectural basis. The first three depict Vancouver's Commercial Drive, where I shared an apartment with poet Norm Sibum 1992-3. Others were inspired by various places I lived, Vancouver to Queen's NY to Montreal, and others visited (Rome, Greece).

 

   Norm's Fruit and Salad      1994       30 x 48       (Vancouver series)    

 

 

 

   Grant's Cafe      1994       30 x 48       (Vancouver series)    

 

 

 

   Grant's Two      1994       30 x 48       (Vancouver series)    

 

 

 

The Palace at Dawn    (Long Island City)    1999    30 x 48"

 

 

 


The Epic and the Monumental     (Montreal)    2000     30 x 48"

 

 

 


Bridge to Other Places    2000    30 x 48"

 

 

 

Keeper of My Grace     30 x 48"

 

 

 

Queens Train          30 x 48"

 

 

 

Fence   (Long Island City)    2007    30 x 48"

 

 



 Green Door (Coney Island)    2007    30" x 48" 

 

 

 

       Alchemy          2009         each panel 24"x30"     

 

 

 

 


                      Elemental       30 x 48"                                     

 

 

 

Accumulations        30 x 48"

 

 

 

The Rome Series: Four months in an apartment in Rome, a residency through the Quebec Arts Council granted to poet Norm Sibum, and his partner (me) welcomed.

 


Forum Romanum     30" x 48" 

 

 

 

                           Appia Antiqua    2005     30" x 48"                 

 

 

 

 

  Aventino          24" x 30"       

 

 

 

 


Pantheon     24" x 30"

 

 

 

 

 

                 

Tea Time  2005  24 x 30"

*The teapot image inspired by taxi driver in Rome who, as we drove past a certain Mussolini-era monument, remarked that the locals think it looks like a teapot.