Paper and Art
There are many ways paper can be used in art: cut, folded, torn, glued, woven, painted. Samples of Pantone Color Paper/Uncoated. Many years ago these (expensive) papers were essential in […]
Waves: Liquid in Motion
Waves in photography and paintings. On a road trip to California in 1975 I was totally fascinated with the huge ocean waves in both Oregon and California. I wasted almost […]
Liquid in Motion
For years I have been exploring images of liquid motion in both my paintings and photography. Salmon spawning in the rivers. Waterfalls in Wales: Photographic Exploration of Water in Motion. […]
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 […]
The Unfurling Fern in Springtime, April’s Plant of the Month
Ferns in the process of awakening. Fern rising up from the bracken at UBC.A fern trying to straighten itself out.My acrylic painting of ‘Unfurling Ferns by a Stream‘ found on a North […]
Textures: Pixels Vs. Paint
Pixels can never truly reproduce the tactile quality of real textures created by paint; textures so delicious you want to reach out and touch them. There is however, visual texture, […]
Dragon Dancers & an Arrowhead Philodendron
Philodendrons remind me of snakes, the sinuous way they slither through the jungle winding their way up trees. And, at this year’s Chinese New Year Parade, I discovered that they […]
