“Curated by his wry sensibility and somewhat ironic mind’s eye, Forbes’ imagery is record of stopping along the way, moving around clichés of abandoned expectation to see sentiment and exuberance in the ephemera of human endeavour.” – Marian Botsford Fraser, author

Image Galleries

  • Float Your Boat

    Captured in the working fishing village of Blue Rocks an oar’s throw from the studio, the life-line dinghies, dories and row boats are casually moored where they were last needed, or hauled up for patch and paint.

  • Architecture without architects

    The architecture of place holds cultural record and memory as the originating purpose remains constant — the honesty of shelter and utility in life.

  • Sentinels

    Hugging the Nova Scotia coast, massive granite seawalls built by anonymous fisher & folk stretching back to an era when backhoes were horses and backs were sore.

  • Come from here.

    A record of stopping along the way to record human endeavour in scenes of spirited enterprise.

  • Wallflowers

    Growing wild along the edge of the woods, freshly snapped buds were captured in the morning light.

  • Spatial

    "… a visual exploration of repurposed form rby which architectural object is redeployed as an one with an alternative."
    – Carla Rowe, No.3 Magazine, NYC

  • Steve's House

    The Gothic 1905 Frost House clings to the cliff of Whale Cove on the Digby Neck of Nova Scotia as an inspiration to Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne. Since 1982, Steve’s house, a time capsule of shells, quilts and canvases. was the summer residence of NYC artist Steve Kuzma.

  • Lotus

    A case of fresh buds flew 13,500 km from Bangkok to the Toronto studio, photographed over two days in the available light of the solarium.

  • Mobile

    Vehicles are both precious and disposable like Bic lighters run out of gas.

  • Petra

    Crushed by glacial weight into mammoth metamorphic form and sculpted crystal amalgams.