Selections From WG's PedArt

Eleanor Milne, the famous Canadian sculptor, has described WG's well known works The Pillars of Law and Justice, and, The Columns of America, The Americas, as quite simply "interesting" and intriguing - the same applies to this collection of his visual artworks within his PedArt innovation as both philosopher and multi-skilled artist. Former international relations and Middle East advisor Ian Sutherland has said of WG, "... the most intelligent man I've ever known", and this thought has been echoed by Professor Scott Chlopin and others. This intelligence comes bursting forward in his very unusual yet comforting works of art, sometimes enriched by color and sometimes simply compelling because of a wonderfully haunting quality made by his black paint brushes and sketch pencils. WG has conversed with contemporary artist Alex Colville on different matters, and has obviously found some common ground to be poured into his own works of minimalist, nativist raw imagination amidst the shadows and lights of our times in both cross-Atlantic and Pacific, and Indian Ocean meditations on the beauty of simply being. Perhaps this is the result when you get a man of Lebanese-Arabic ancestry meditating from North America on matters both Anglo-Americana and Arabian-Asian-Pacific while being raised amidst the curious Inuit and Franco peoples of Canada.