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 […]
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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,
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This is acrylic media on canvas, 24″ x 24″ x 1.5″. More details here
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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.
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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
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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
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In the Event In the event of my absence (A sorry no-show!) Don’t wait up. I’m catching another train. It’s leaving before midnight. And anyway, I wasn’t that eager to stay. In the event I do arrive, Don’t sing those old familiar ditties I deplore. I know I never told you, surely you must have
“To study the way we read is to study the way the mind works: the way it evaluates a statement for truth, the way it behaves in relation to another mind (i.e., the writer’s) across space and time… The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world;
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