Fun with Yellow Fall Flowers
Fall is the time for the warm yellow flowers to appear. I had no idea what this flower was until I Googled ‘shaggy yellow flower’ and there it was: a […]
Still Life Arrangements of Food
Food & art: ‘themed’ snacks designed by the caterer for my art show ‘Precious Stones‘. I was told that he came in and took photos of my exhibit and then […]
My Exhibition at Britannia Art Gallery in Vancouver
When I initially wrote this the exhibit wasn’t due to go up until the weekend and I was in the throes of planning and packing up paintings, hoping the walls […]
Using Out-of-Focus Images as Overlays
Years ago I got a new Nikon Coolpix camera but it had a devil of a time focusing and I came back from several holidays with a bunch of out-of-focus […]
Inspiration from Denmark & Sweden (& Iceland)
A collection of inspiration gathered in my last trip to Scandinavia. Chalk Cliffs. At Stevns Klint the white chalk cliffs are embedded with dark flint nodules. (Stevns Klint and the […]
My ‘Precious Stones’ Exhibit at Britannia Art Gallery
Precious Stones A Japanese saying goes, ‘The pebble in the brook secretly believes itself to be a precious stone’. These paintings are portraits of pebbles, stones and rocks, all of […]
Paintings from Point No Point on Vancouver Island
The assignment from my second mixed media class was ‘music’. For me the music was an experimental piece that I heard at the Western Front over 30 years ago called […]
