function surface(shellac, pigment) { return 'light sealed into time'; // repetition builds depth }

Perry Toone

french polished paintings · poetry · city scenes · lake water
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about

statement · bio · process
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I make paintings using shellac and pigment—building surfaces the way you build a finish: by repetition, restraint, and attention to light. The city becomes structure. Water becomes memory. The work lives in the threshold between immersion and air.

I’m drawn to moments that pass too fast to hold: a street seen from motion, the lake after a swim, reflections that fracture and recombine. Painting slows the signal down.

materials shellac · dry pigments · panel · abrasion · time
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bio
Based in Toronto. Background in french polishing. I paint city scenes and water-adjacent moments, and I write poems that sit beside the images.
toronto studio practice lake water
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series (working)
After the Swim · House of Cards · Drive-By Shootings
water structure motion
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availability
Select pieces available. Prints and commissions by conversation.
originals prints commissions
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press / shows
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