I met Donna Brown at the workshop of Karen Rosasco last summer. Donna has been painting for several years now and has her studio in Kingston. She will be showing her work at the Wellington Street Art Gallery in Toronto from May 16 to June 2. Bravo Donna!
(This is one of her art work entitled Protection; to see all the art work exhibited, go to the website of the Gallery as listed below.)
http://www.wellingtonstreetartgallery.ca/exhibitions.html

Toronto IS grunge...Here are 2 "real" examples of grunge, encountered on the streets of Toronto...on posts and doors. I cannot say that I find that "pleasing" but it is an amazing experience to be able to recreate this type of "mood" with texture and colours.

When I came back in the studio, I was full of those images and started working on the rehabilitation of one of my failed designs. "Grunge city" emerged...