Rosemary Leaving Time to go? So soon it seems. Despite the decades of (un)necessary decorum and disguise,no place to hide. But there’s unfinished business!Well, there’s always businessIncomplete, undone. Those canvasesleaning against the wall,For one. And sketches in a thousand (so it seems)Notebooks, journals, scraps of paperBetween the pages.Notes to Self, undone. What you (were) meant to …
Untitled New ArtWork Does a title really matter? I use this experimental piece and the accompanying narrative to bring more explicitly art references and other influences into the story/composition. This multilayered, multimedia work brings a Mondrian-like scaffolding to a textured ground that is part earth-scape, part colour fields, part wall & paper debris, a conflation …
A gesture is frequently how a new work of art begins. A mark, a line, or a swirl of paint from a brush or squeeze bottle. Where it goes from there is the “infinite”, the play of intuition, the ‘permission’ of the muses to reach into the infinite for a token of their magic. In …
Season’s Survivors: The Conception Story Acrylics on yupo paper mounted on wood panel. 24″ x 24″ x 1.75″. Recently completed after abiding patiently in the archives for eight years, awaiting the final completion stage. Sometimes it takes that long. This piece was conceived at my art studio on Bowen Island during the nearly three years of that …
Detritus Doubled, each 18″ x 24″, mixed media on heavy paper. These two were created side by side, on the floor of the Studio. Can I call it diptych? The base is gold tempera. More apparent in one, as the other was softened with a creamy white. Then with oil pastel crayon I added gestural …
As one might gather from my portfolio, I’m a free stylist, or experimentalist. I take inspiration from a variety of sources – for example, artists of the modern era and of contemporary times. In decades past, I was inspired by Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Rothko, Picasso, among many others. Other influences come from literary, scientific, …
This is acrylic media on canvas, 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″. More details here
It’s alright Ma I’m only here a while No, I won’t be staying long. I’m here to catch up on my thinkin’ Cus I’m spending too much time blinkin’ In my dreamtime, in between time, Reading fairy tales and fiction. And I’ve been a hankerin’ for the other side. Where the Winter’s tide is waning. …
This painting was the first undertaking for what became the Improbable Landscape series. The canvas used for this was actually another abstract piece that the owner donated, as she did not like the design once hanging in her home office. I removed most of the existing acrylic paint and re-conceived the whole work as …
You are an Original. Absolutely one of kind. Always have been from the beginingless beginning. And here you are on this planet at this moment to express that originality in your own unique and authentic ways. Oh! But maybe you forgot that fundamental reality. Well then, first you are here to rediscover it. This would …