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.
Read MoreFlowers 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
Read MoreNew gallery representation and other fall news.
Read MoreOn 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.”
Read MoreI’m looking forward to peony season and summer in the studio.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreThanks 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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreIt’s clear that we’ll be self-isolating for the rest of the winter, most of us, to a greater or lesser degree depending where we are.
Read MoreOne thing the pandemic has done for artists is that we’ve had to re-think the way that we get our work into the hands of those who would like to own it.
Read MoreIt’s been a strange time for everyone for so long now. My life has been largely unchanged by the pandemic. The life of a painter is fairly solitudinous most of the time, and I’ve cultivated a quite sedate and minimal existence in general.
Read MoreAs we all have, I’ve been listening to the news this past week. As I paint, I have on NPR and sometimes the BBC and am taking in the news on Black Lives Matter, and now to a lesser extent Covid-19. Here we are living in this moment that is going to be written into history as a major event and hopefully one that marks real change.
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