Tag: love

  • Banff Redux 2014

    I just received some exciting news!  In late 2011, I applied for a public art project in Banff and then kind of forgot about it as I hadn’t received any news from them after sending my application off. So you can imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail last week that my piece, Love…

  • Pretty Boys Can Only Say So Much

    Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who has been so supportive of my Indiegogo campaign. Thank you for the contributions, sharing the link and spreading the word. I’ve still got just over 30 days to go! So the idea for this series of drawings, pretty boys kill me, came to me while I was on…

  • 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…

  • Push & Pull

    I’ll be updating my website with an image of this new painted wood cutout soon.  For now though, just a little teaser. I’m still trying to think of a good title for this piece….  Any suggestions?

  • Portrait Painting as an Act of Love

    When I was doing research for my MA thesis paper on portraiture, in 2003, I came across a story by Pliny the Elder.  It was about the invention of drawing/painting.  A Corinthian maiden traced the profile of her lover using charcoal and the shadow of his face on a wall.  He was about to depart…