Every year I participate in the Eastside Culture Crawl, an open studio tour with options for other exhibitions. “This year’s exhibition, Surfacing, will harness the creative force gestated in this pandemic period and chronicle the new directions of recent works. … Continue reading Dialogues Between Natural/Unnatural
Earlier this year in the Pacific Spirit Forest I found two wavery forest reflections in a dark pool. At the time I thought I hadn’t even seen anything quite like it and was fascinated by the quivering movement in the pond. … Continue reading Tree Reflections in Ponds
Blue & green and in between. I have included two diptychs using the top image of a wavery reflections of a dark tree in a pool in the Pacific Spirit Park. This first is combined with cracked paint on a … Continue reading Cool Colours: Blue & Green and In Between
Every so often I get in the mood to play with words, and try and define them in my head. Dots. There’s the word dot, which rhymes with spot, and looks a lot like a spot, only perhaps dots are … Continue reading Dots & Spots
For my 2020 Photos in Review I wrote: “My COVID walks were along back alleys and busy thoroughfares, by myself, and contained no rest stops for a coffee or happy hour. I doubt very much I’ll be writing those up.“ … Continue reading Natural & Unnatural: A Visual Discourse
Awhile ago the Lens-Artists Challenge was ‘Special Moments’. But in this time of plague the most special moments in my life have been the discovery of a particularly crusty dumpster… …and a magnificent 2-storey 3D abstract gallery in the shape … Continue reading Accidental Art from Dumpsters and Concrete Forms
There’s not much out there to photograph in Vancouver at this time of year. Mostly I’ve been busy taking macros of ‘abstract textures’ found on dumpsters and lampposts, and combining them with macros of ‘tree bark’ that have interesting similarities … Continue reading Dialogues Between Tree Bark & Abstract Textures
What with winter there’s not a lot to take photos of, so I’ve been busy with macros of tree bark. It’s been a real voyage of discovery which is somewhat of a miracle considering the times we live in. Although … Continue reading Tree Bark as Inspiration 2
I prefer to travel around the world but right now I’m going for walks around the city, and only to places I can get to without taking transit. The other day I went for a walk up to Shaughnessy, the … Continue reading It’s a Small World (Especially Right Now)
Black & White Abstract. China News stand in Vancouver. An accidental landscape with a frozen lake appears in the black grafitti on a white panel van. (+ Grey). Two black and white abstracts in scratched and broken plaster on … Continue reading Black & White (+ 1) Abstracts from Around the World
