Artworks

Robert Pilot captured an early spring morning in Montreal, sketching from above, on the slope in Westmount, overlooking the Grey Nuns’ Mother House, now 70 years later identified as Dawson College. The budding and lightly leafed trees and roofs of the homes in Priests’ Farm’s neighbourhood transition to the imposing dome, wings and silhouette of the Mother House beyond, dissolving into layers of the Montreal skyline and the industrial smokestacks. Robert Pilot is best termed an impressionist, here describing dappled light, faint colours, with his interest in an atmospheric urban landscape, one of morning tranquility and certainly of historical importance.