Life slips by with such speed these days…its hard to keep up! My time in Korea seems the distant past, I’ve painted two theatre productions since my return. (The Governor General Awards in the Southam Hall opera stage, as well and a most wonderful production of a Norse tale called The Changeling, … Read More
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
Shoot for the stars, I always do, guess I’m an idealist. Here I am at Cobalt Studios, learning all I can about scenic painting. The best tool a scenic artist has is ingenuity- how can I get this done, the fastest, most efficient, physically easiest method? (You begin the think this way … 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
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