Mark Milroy: Cowboy Up

Mark Milroy’s narrative paintings exude a certain kind of magic. He is deeply engaged with memories of growing up in St Thomas, Ontario, a childhood where the woods, lakes and rivers formed a backdrop to unsupervised escapades and the wildest of high jinks. This engagement with the wonder of the natural world, and the stimulation of experience throughout his life, provide fertile material for this body of work. The oil paintings, ranging from portraiture and landscape to still-life blend the line between truth and fiction, they tell compelling, ambiguous stories sprung from memory, coupled with the power of artistic invention.