Powerful Psychological Paintings by Philip Surrey
August 30, 2017
The summer or winter backdrop of Montreal’s plexes and the symmetry of their spiralling exterior staircases, in one of our paintings a lone full figured mini skirted female, walking under night skies appears in the crosshairs of car headlights, a man at the wheel, and the other, two women strolling along Ste Catherine Street, the miniskirted one in the distance highlighted in red by the light cast from a store she is passing, the headlights of a single car seen in the distance, a lone woman crossing a Westmount street near Surrey’s home on a wet night, illuminated by light coming from the store window, a red traffic light glaring overhead of a man walking in the shadow, a figure, almost imperceptible on a St Henri street, each introduces us to an artist who describes vulnerability, loneliness, mystery and sometimes even the triste.
