Tag: Banff

  • 2011 – The Year of Snow & Beaches

    2011 – The Year of Snow & Beaches

    With 2011 drawing to a close, and 2012 on the horizon, I’d like to wish you a very Happy New Year. This past year has been a roller coaster of sorts for me, with many highs and lows and a couple of loops thrown in for good measure.  I think it would be fair to…

  • Beware of Wolves

    There has been a recurring motif in my work this year, and I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on this: The Wolf. It was wholly unintentional, but the wolf has been popping up in my work all year long. It first started at the beginning of the year, when I made my…

  • Love is touching souls

    Earlier this summer, I was gifted a found photograph.  It was a lovely group portrait of Québécois tourists in the Rocky Mountains.  I’m assuming it was taken in Alberta (I can’t identify the exact mountain), and I’m not sure when the photo dates from, but I’m guessing sometime in the early 1960s perhaps.  There are…

  • we could be lovers

    This is long overdue, but I’ve just updated my website with images from my “we could be lovers” series of drawings that I made, while I was in Banff earlier this year, of my fellow artists-in-residence.  The gallery of images is now online here.

  • Back to life, back to reality…

    So the last week or so has been busy with the ending of my Banff residency and readjusting to life back in Vancouver.  I won’t be back in the studio until next week but I’m raring to go with lots of ideas brewing in my head.  Banff definitely gave me a creative boost, and I…