I use acrylic paint to create images of so many things it’s hard to know where to begin. My life as an artist has covered so many realms of thought and using colour shape and texture I tell a story. The story is usually of a moment in time that has struck me in one way or another. Our stories define us and that definition can become universal to a degree when folks outside my experience connect with my work and bring it into their life. Acrylic paint is easy to use, and can be manipulated to appear like other mediums so is flexible and long-lasting. It can be used to apply colour texture and images to a variety of surfaces, always a helpful tendency.
winter dusk 12×24″ Spring is late this year. But today it is raining. The trees are dark, wet; stark against the remaining snow. They are burgeoning, their sap is running, silently. Signs of spring will soon become apparent, but not quite yet. Silence reigns. The rain reveals patches of grass at the … Read More
We Canadians are a weather hardy lot, for the most part…but we are all, each of us, wailing, where is spring, when will it get here…despondent voices of otherwise hardy friends wail at the end of the phone line. I am in my bright warm studio for the day, I scamper about in … Read More
I spent most of the summer creating and then they installed the brand new Blackbird Cafe sign in Burnstown….the best eats around!
It took courage, all I had to attack a 60 foot double side (translucent) drop for the set of Nativity. I worked wonderfully…. This is what it looked like on the floor kiddie corner in the shop to accommodate the size. I had one day to paint the from another to do … Read More
The Changeling, the last production of the year at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. It is a Norse children’s fable, with trolls and cats and ducks…, you get the picture. I’m here painting one of the several folding panels that indicate a fire….seen through the various windows of the main flat.
The city of Seoul is large, huge, monumental, it is grand, it is massive…I know you get the point. I live in a town of fewer than 100 people, it has taken me a week to get used to all this. I come from a country that is young, the antiquity here … Read More
A drive, a path I’ve not taken before, leads me to Cobalt Studios, nestled on the edge of the Catskills, wonder and experience anew awaits me, tantalizing me, teasing me, almost scaring me, until I settle in. A short walk through the wintery woods of New York state brings me to the … Read More
The set for Buried Child, a Sam Shepard play, is finished except for the final touches. It lies in wait in the now quiet workshop; in the dim light, it has a spooky presence, and rightly so. It consists of high walls made of slats, that we wallpapered over then cut out … Read More