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
Image shown is one of the projects I did while at Cobalt Studios. It is 9′ x 12′ painted on muslin in traditional theatrical style designed and painted by…me. Ahhh, that delicious feeling of arriving home again, all that familiarity kissing you on the face.Life switches gears now, and the self~directed approach … 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
‘Well Done’ I say. The play Happy Days is up and running at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. I was there to be a part of opening night. It is a wonderful production. The play is intriguing, as Samuel Beckett explores with humour and a, barely underlying, dark sensibility. It speaks … Read More
“Summer Works (In Progress)” is the theme at the gallery right now. I am working hard this summer, using a newfound creative fire to keep on paintin’. A steady stream of a few new series has kept me busy this summer. Right now there are watercolours of fabulous dancing shadows on the … Read More
After over three years of poor vision, as a result of an iris melanoma tumor in my eye, I have my sight back! Modern medicine is to be congratulated! I can see again. Colour has returned as well, I had not realized I had lost it. How have I been painting all … Read More
Ah, the vagaries of weather can once again be blamed for a poor showing at an art sale. (Its always good to have a handy excuse why art is not selling. It’s an easy choice, there are so many opportunities to gather excuses too!) Selling one’s own art is an art. Your … Read More