I made a little video showing the first stage of my painting process.
Each painting begins with a free-hand drawing on canvas. With pencil to canvas I get to know my painting...
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I made a little video showing the first stage of my painting process.
Each painting begins with a free-hand drawing on canvas. With pencil to canvas I get to know my painting...
Read MoreIt’s a rainy, blustery day and I’m cozy warm in my studio…
Looking out my window at the Vancouver harbour, I remember that only a few years ago, this was my dream...
Read MoreFall is just around the corner and I'm opening up my studio for new classes, a mentorship program and creativity workshops...
Read MoreIt is hard to see things about ourselves… they can remain deeply hidden. We might sense they are there… But how can we “see” them?
I am a very visual person, both in how I experience the external world, but also in my internal world; my imagination or “mind’s eye”. So for me to understand something I need to “see” it...
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Life is a series of beginnings and endings.
(And I do so love new beginnings!)
To have a beginning, I first must have an ending...
I need to finish one chapter before I start the next.
As I add the final touches to my trees, I’m already thinking about my next painting.
I have the idea, the vision... the canvas...
But...
‘The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.’ ~ Robert Henri
And so, I remind myself...
It’s all in the being.
Be where I am. En-Joy where I am.
And it will be done...