Category: Art
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Ox-Bow Winter Benefit Art Auction
Last autumn, I spent 5 weeks at the Ox-Bow School of Art on an artist residency. It was such a wonderful experience, in a beautiful setting where I met some amazing people and had the time and space to focus on creating art. So when I was asked to donate a piece to their annual…
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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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Love Songs – Past & Present
This past year or so, text has started showing up in my work again. During my undergrad, I worked with text in some of my paintings and it was not perhaps the most successful use of text, looking back. I kind of left it out of my practice for a long time, along with installation,…
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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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The Lady and The Unicorn
Every once in a while, I work on something new and think that I have this great new idea, only to realize that I’ve actually visited the same imagery or theme before. I don’t think this is a bad thing though. It’s pretty interesting actually, looking back at why I first chose that image/theme to…