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.
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
I thank my talent on a daily basis. It is so much of what I am now, after all these years of being a painter it is part of my cellular structure, it is deeply embedded in my being. I take the world around me, the one I experience, and endeavour to … 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
‘Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett, is on its way, being created. The set for the upcoming production at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa is in full swing. The rather large frame, resembling a beached whale, has been constructed and we are in the process of applying fabric and our painterly version … Read More
Summer is ending I don’t want it to go,…. I did not get out enough to draw! The intentions were there, but not the time. I want the rolls of hay in freshly cut fields, the sunlight playing on the rich golden hues contrasted by the complementary blue sky, a world of … Read More