Clifford George: City Streets and Along the Shore
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Little Wild Cove, Twillingate -
Revisiting Gower Street -
Livingstone Street -
Noel's Perch -
Isabel's, NE Side Heart's Delight -
Long's Hill -
Ladha's Key -
View From Ochre Pit Hill, Twillingate -
Walk Through Quidi Vidi -
Falling Leaves, Colonial Street -
Bryant's Cove -
Revisiting Queen's Road -
Pennywell Road -
Brazil Street -
Cupids -
Newtown -
Carter's Hill -
Hibb's Hole, Over the Hill -
First Snow, New World Island -
Study, Conception Harbour -
By the Landwash, Twillingate -
Wild Roses, Maberly -
Salt Box Houses, Bonavista
Christina Parker Gallery is pleased to announce City Streets and Along the Shore, an exhibition of new paintings on canvas by Clifford George. This marks Clifford’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition will open with an artist reception on Friday, May 16 from 6–8pm, and will continue until June 7. Music at the opening reception will be provided by Boyd Chubbs.
Clifford George’s new paintings of St. John’s are infused with affection for his favourite neighborhoods, including Long’s Hill, Pennywell Road, Colonial Street and Quidi Vidi. He revisits these familiar places with fond enthusiasm, bringing the streets and architecture to life with his colourful palette and playful slant on things. In this heartfelt new exhibition, he also looks with fresh eyes to the outports and coastlines of the province which he knows so well, especially the Bonavista Peninsula, Change Islands, Fogo Island and surrounding communities.
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When you live in the city and leave to go back around the bay to where you came from, like I did, you miss the old streets and how they bloomed with colour.
I can still smell autumn in the tree saps and feel the fall winds blowing silently between the old houses of downtown.
The friends I met over the years are still in my memories. It is so nice to take pallet knife and brush and to be able to create a symphony of it all.
Houses on both sides of the street reaching up to the clouds floating by, while birds chatter on the wires above and the sun winks at window panes and evening sky.
Like the song, “Our Town” by Iris DeMent:
“Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning bugs fly
But I can’t see too good, I got tears in my eyes
I’m leaving tomorrow but I don’t want to go.
I love you my town, you’ll always live in my soul.”
—Clifford George, April 2025
Clifford George lives and works in Whiteway, Trinity Bay. He has actively painted and exhibited since 1970. While primarily self-taught, he received a formal art education at the College of Trades and Technology in St. John’s where he graduated in 1972. His career post-education was as a sign painter. Clifford continued his art education by doing private study and workshops with some of the most important artists in Newfoundland like Gerald Squires, Frank LaPointe and Don Wright. Later, his drawing ability led him to a job as a medical artist at the Health Science Centres associated with Memorial University, where his drawings were published in many international medical journals. The paintings of Clifford George are in both public and private collections around the world.