My show titled From the Garden opens in Calgary on May 3rd, 2025. I’ll be in attendance from 2pm that day and there will be a brief artist talk with time for questions at 2:30pm.
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Part of an artist’s work is to look at other art. We just got back from a couple of weeks in Florence, Italy and steeping ourselves in renaissance and other art.
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I shared a bit about myself on Instagram today, including a favourite quotation:
"Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes."
– Andrew Wyeth
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I’m really pleased to say that I’ve sent my first three works to Studio Gallery Group in Australia.
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It’s the end of winter in Edmonton, where I live, which means the month of March begins with a lot of snow shovelling. I’ve welcomed the snow of late, as we’d had only a scant amount all winter. And you know I’m thinking about all my peonies in my garden.
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Flowers have helped us all get through a lot these last years. They’ve reminded me of the importance of beauty, the importance of grounding ourselves with art in our every day lives. Beauty persists and it refreshes our souls so that we may go out into the world and do our work
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New gallery representation and other fall news.
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On Art and Mindfulness by Enrique Martinez Celaya is an invaluable book for artists. I appreciate his notes on the studio. He says, “The studio is in the world. All your problems are artistic problems. The world illuminates your work and your work illuminates the world.”
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I’m looking forward to peony season and summer in the studio.
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If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I spent the month of September in Pouch Cove as one of the artists in residence, in the stellar company of Monica Tap, Lisa Johnston, Mara Korkola, and Holly Friesen. All of this is made possible by the generosity and organizational skills of James Baird of the James Baird Gallery.
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Thanks to everyone for reading about my preparations for the recent exhibition of my flower paintings at the Wallace Galleries in Calgary, who cheered on the process, and who supported the work in a myriad of ways.
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If I’ve learned anything from this past year, is that flowers matter to people. By the time the pandemic started I had painted a number of large floral pieces. I was interested in an immersive experience.
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