Coombs paintings combine a playful yet controlled spontaneity with a disciplined precision of execution. A planar, geometric approach reduces these abstract works to fundamentals, a language of colour and shape. References to popular culture and art history appear but do not dominate the visual experience.
His rigorous and deliberate approach to colour animates and enhances the work. There is an alchemy to his use of colour and form that is almost mathematical. Space and depth are suggested convincingly despite the flatness of the shapes.
Many Modernist traditions are apparent in his work, Cubism in particular, and recall the aesthetic of the 1920’s German expressionist film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, as well as the jazz-influenced paintings of the American artist, Stuart Davis.
7UP! acrylic on canvas 2019 12 x 12" $CAD 600
DECONSTRUCTED FIREWALL
acrylic on canvas
2018 12 x 12"
$CAD 600
STAIRCASE
acrylic on canvas
2018 12 x 12"
$CAD 600
SALON acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
RAINBARREL acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
SLIDE acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
CHAT acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
PIE CHART acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
COAT OF ARMS acrylic on canvas 2019 16 x 12" $CAD 700
REFLECTION acrylic on canvas 2018 16 X 12" $CAD 700
TUMBLE acrylic on canvas 2018 16 X 12" $CAD 700
DANGLE
acrylic on canvas
2018 24 x 12"
$CAD 900
GAUNTLET acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 12" $CAD 900
DARK ALLEY acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 12" $CAD 900
MESSENGER acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 12" $CAD 900 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
SCOOP acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 12" $CAD 900 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
ALL SORTS acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 18" $CAD 1050
VERMONT acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 18" $CAD 1050 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
ODYSSEY acrylic on canvas 2018 24 x 18" $CAD 1050
ROCKY ROAD acrylic on canvas 2019 24 x 18" $CAD 1050
EVEN KEEL acrylic on canvas 2016 30 x 24" $CAD 1350 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
CARNIVAL acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350
SCRAMBLE acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350
INLET acrylic on canvas 2016 30 x 24" $CAD 1350 Selected by juror for PAINTING 2022/2023, an online exhibition organized by the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto, Ontario.
SHIELD acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
RUSH HOUR acrylic on canvas 2016 30 x 24" $CAD 1350 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
DOUBLE DIGITS acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350
SUNBATHER acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350
CATERPILLAR acrylic on canvas 2017 30 x 24" $CAD 1350
ARCHER acrylic on canvas 2018 18 x 24" $CAD 1050 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
ALPHABET acrylic on canvas 2018 24 x 36" $CAD 1500 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
FIESTA acrylic on canvas 2016 36 x 48" $CAD 2500 Currently at Art Gallery of Burlington Shop
PICNIC acrylic on canvas 2018 36 x 48" $CAD 2500
SIEGE (diptych) acrylic on canvas 2019 48 x 72" SOLD
