Gerrit Verstraete

John Gould Gerrit Verstraete

"Just me and the paper" is the authorized biography of Canadian drawing master, John Howard Gould (1929-2010), an artist with a strong vocational pull who unabashedly embraced the romance of his life's work. Set in the prevailing years of Abstract Expressionism and the CBC's first steps into public television, the post-beat era of "Toronto the Good," the Ontario College of Art, and a small town called Waubaushene, Ontario, this is a story of determination, draftsmanship, exotic travels, a hitchhiker's way of the road, and one man's creative mission with many musical interludes.