One exercise we had in a Mixed Media class was to think of something we did with paper. Me I thought of folded brochures, and the next thing I was doing was masses of sketches of paintings with folded paper … Continue reading Folded Paper Painting of the Chalk Cliffs at Stevns Klint in Denmark
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
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
The Land Unfolds Before Me was the theme for my show at the 2019 Eastside Culture Crawl. A full collection of my art can be seen at https://batzgallery.com/. Elizabatz Gallery, Studio 218, Parker Street Studios (1000 Parker St), Vancouver. The … Continue reading The Land Unfolds Before Me
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 would look something like this! My plan for the Britannia … Continue reading My Exhibition at Britannia Art Gallery in Vancouver
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 ‘Wood on Wood and Water‘. Someone was drumming on driftwood … Continue reading Paintings from Point No Point on Vancouver Island
One of the artists at the Emily Carr Grad Show had work featuring layers of torn/cut paper and this twigged me to some of my old work that was inspired by the experience of fossil-hunting with my dad… The fossils were … Continue reading First Attempt at an Artwork Inspired by Fossils
Painting of a rock at Botanical Beach with black tempered glass embedded into an acrylic/spackling/sand mix. This is the rock at Botanical Beach that inspired the painting. Taking a lesson from the difficulties of painting acrylic over glass this time … Continue reading Beach Rock of Broken Glass
One part of the beach at Cap Hornu on the Normandy Coast of France was filled with flint stones with subtle wave patterns in black and ochre. In some cases the ochre seeped into the crusty white coating of the stones creating patterns reminiscent of … Continue reading My ‘French’ Flints
I’ve been working on this painting of a rock covered with petroglyphs for ages, and have had endless problems with it. This was the first version, all 4 x 3 feet of it, acrylic and handmade paper on masonite. Al … Continue reading Paintings of Sage Dancers & the Pink Petroglyph Rock
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