What I really loved about Wales and Ireland was all the varied rock formations on their spectacular coastlines. Porthgain featured dark blue-grey slate that turned bright orange with rust wherever it cracked and the innermost rock was exposed. And now … Continue reading Rust and Shale Rock Formations in Wales
Sometimes there are good explanations as to why stones have holes in them. Lava is one of them. All the boiling bubbling lava suddenly hardens to rock when it hits the cold outer surface of the planet. All of these … Continue reading Rocks with Holes in Them
The rocks on the beach at Botany Bay are an intriguing compound rock consisting of striations of a black-slate like rock butting up against worn grey and white stone with undulating formations. A pencil sketch of the rocks at Botany … Continue reading Inspiration from the Striated Rocks at Botany Bay on Vancouver Island
These two images of rocks from Ireland are from two different places; the first is from Galley Head which had a mass of rocks I want to paint and the second is fractured shale from the Cliffs of Moher, another … Continue reading Textures of Rocks on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland
The Land Unfolds Before Me, my latest show for this year’s Eastside Culture Crawl, November 14-17, 2019. Elizabatz Gallery, Studio 218, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver. The Mountains Across the Water from Eilat. Heading over to Vancouver Island where I grew … Continue reading ‘The Land Unfolds Before Me’ – Culture Crawl 2019
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 went back and designed these amazing platters of food. Cheese, … Continue reading Still Life Arrangements of Food
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
Last week Cee’s challenge was colour of choice and I picked grey, my least favourite colour, with the idea of using this colour while exploring Cee’s next series. These rock textures from Ireland were the grey I had in mind … Continue reading Grey Rock Texture Collages from Ireland
Englishman River Falls Painting, watercolour paper mounted on wood cradle, 18” x 24″. The Process. The original unfinished painting was acrylic on large piece of watercolour paper. The big problem was how to frame it, especially if I’m thinking of … Continue reading Englishman River Falls Paintings, Take 2
