Inspiration from the Striated Rocks at Botany Bay on Vancouver Island
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 […]
Category Archives: Rock Formations
Textures of Rocks on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland
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 […]
‘The Land Unfolds Before Me’ Art Show
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grey Rock Texture Collages from Ireland
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 […]
Englishman River Falls Paintings, Take 2
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 […]
Cosmic Challenge: Dreams into Reality
July 2017. Where I attempt to turn my dream of a gallery/studio space into reality. November 2017. A mass of learning curve experiences later my gallery was finally ready. This is […]
Folded Paper Paintings
The assignment was to think about what we did with paper and then construct an artwork of it. For me, as a commercial artist, one of my favourite things to […]
