Wild flowers in the city. In the city there are empty lots where people have scattered wildflower seeds and they erupt from the earth like this. Most of the empty lots eventually get built on. Sometimes the city takes them over … Continue reading Wild Flowers, Weeds & other Urban Scruff
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
I’ve spent this COVID winter going around the neighbourhood taking macros of tree bark and urban debris. In March I started combining them into diptychs, trying to find a commonality between the details of the two very different items. Abstract … Continue reading Natural/Unnatural : Focussing on Details
I have been attempting a new series inspired by my COVID walks through back alleys and deserted park areas by creating a series of diptychs that are a dialogue between the natural (tree bark) and the unnatural (urban decay). I posted … Continue reading A Dialogue Between Natural / Unnatural Textures
Man-made Stripes. Red striped bathing huts at Knokke-Heist on the Belgian Coast. Striped painting in a gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. Matching one’s blue striped outfit to a blue striped mural on Granville Island, Vancouver. Natural Stripes. Small scrub struggling to grow … Continue reading Stripes & Checks: Man-Made and Natural
Years ago I had to design a web site for Environmental Chemistry Courseware designed to promote environmental awareness supplemental to 200-level Organic Chemistry laboratories. The key concepts were: air / earth / life / water. Originally I was a little … Continue reading Salmon Spawning / Healthy Water
I don’t usually post stuff from my art blog on Facebook, but I have been nominated to post a painting a day for 10 days on Facebook by Deanna Fogstrom, one of my studiomates. You can find her work at: … Continue reading Posting a Painting a Day For Ten Days Challenge
Often called ‘Prayer Plants’ because their light-sensitive leaves fold up in ‘prayer’ in the evening. These plants are all part of the Marantacae genus, and consist of Clatheas, Stromanthes, Ctenanthes and Marantas. Plants always seem to me to be dancing … Continue reading A Selection of Works Inspired by the Prayer Plant
Some people manage to post ‘a flower a day’, even in the middle of an evacuation due to wildfires. Me, on the other hand, I have trouble posting ‘plant of the month’. At any rate here is a belated August … Continue reading Squash & Squash Blossom Artwork and Photos
A long time ago my dad took me fossil-hunting and this became the inspiration for a series of images about fossils. And suddenly the marbles are teeming with creatures, the dead come to life again, the world turns!” Georges Cuvier, the … Continue reading Fossil Inspiration
