Tag: art history
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Photo Diary Part 1: Rome/Vatican
It has been a bit quiet on the blog front this past month. I’ve just returned from a two and a half week trip to Europe for my sister’s wedding in Positano, Italy. It was a beautiful wedding in a stunning locale, on the Amalfi Coast. I was lucky enough to be able to travel…
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Seduction is a Double-Edged Sword
I was going to wait until I took some better photos before I unveiled my new painting, but I haven’t had time to re-photograph the painting yet. The thing is, I often have a really difficult time trying to photograph my paintings, trying to capture all of the minute details in a photograph that also…
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Texting, texting, 1, 2, 3…
I went to a couple of really great artist talks these past two weeks. One was by Damien Moppett, whose show I still have to see at The Rennie Collection, a space I fully encourage everyone to go check out in Vancouver. (You have to book an appointment to go see the exhibitions, but it’s…
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The Arctic Wolf & The White Hart
I recently delivered a couple of portrait commissions that I had been working on for the last few months. Ryan and Chloe first saw my work at the Eastside Culture Crawl a couple of years ago, when I was still at the William Clark Studios. I remember meeting them then, and Chloe really liked my…
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Happy Accidents of the Swing
Earlier this spring, I started a new painting with dark looming green storm clouds. At the end of May, I posted an early sneak peek on my blog, which you can find here. The painting took a bit of a back seat over the summer and then I went away on my Ox-Bow residency. I…