Leighton Farm Project

In September 2010, the Dufferin County Museum presented my series of paintings and photographs of an abandoned farmhouse that sits proudly on Mulmur Township’s Second Concession. Like so many modest Ontario Gothic homes of the area, this house has had a long and colourful history, though it has been boarded up since 1969. I had the pleasure of visiting the house with many of the people that had called it home in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the resulting photographs and paintings are below. This exhibit was both a celebration of a past way of life and the people that lived it, and a contemplation of one of life’s most familiar realities .… change. Special thanks to the Reed Cooper Bursary, Dufferin Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of this project.