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Tapestry Paintings

The bark-like tapestries is a technique I developed using dye and textile paint instead of the usual stretched canvas. This is an expression of my adherence to indigenous forms which complement the subject and theme of my artwork. I want to achieve the effect that when viewed, the entire surface has the feel and look of figures emerging from South East Asian hand woven cloth and figures. Prevailing at present in harmonious confluence with the laws of the universe, of nature and myth as it exist in the tribal world, woven into the nature of things and expressed in designs so long known from the memory of our ancestors.

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< Bert at his Vancouver, BC studio