Dozens of other paintings hang elsewhere in the GTA, bought by strangers directly from Greene at various exhibitions through the years. While at the family cottage, Greene sent his kids into the forest to detach pieces of fungus from rotted trees. Greene was struck by whooping cough when he was not yet 2 years old, and lost his hearing as a result. When his sons later opened Chain Reaction, a bike store on Dundas St. W., Greene made a stained-glass bicycle that has hung in the store’s window since the early 1990s. After Greene died, his children hung about a dozen of his paintings in the funeral home’s visitation room.

Source: thestar August 24, 2016 18:56 UTC