Tag: portraiture

  • Mother / Mother

    Mother / Mother

    Mother – Part 1 2016 was a quiet art year for me with lots going on in life. The first half of the year started out normally, working on different paintings and exploring new themes, but things changed in late spring. I found myself thinking a lot about motherhood, and what it meant as an…

  • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

    Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

    This summer I had the pleasure of creating a portrait of my friend Heather. The painting was commissioned by her mother-in-law, who has been a great friend and supporter of my art since my early days in London. We had been planning this painting for quite some time now, and ideas had been exchanged over…

  • Hey baby!

    Hey baby!

    Happy New Year! I’ve been a bit quiet with my blog posting as I was busy over the holidays trying to catch up on work. I had to take over a month and a half off late last fall because of my hand injury, and with my solo exhibition at Gallery Fukai quickly approaching this April,…

  • Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses

    Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses

    This upcoming Saturday will be the opening of a group exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery titled Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses. I will be exhibiting a series of self-portrait paintings dating from 2006 to 2011, many of which have never been exhibited in Vancouver, and all of which have never been shown alongside…

  • A boy is a work in progress

    A boy is a work in progress

    There’s no Fridays & Friends this month, as I’m still going full steam ahead with my “pretty boys kill me” campaign. I’m really enjoying working on these small drawing studies for my pretty boys kill me series right now. I find there is such a different quality to my mark making when I work small…