Category: Art
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All Together Now
I briefly mentioned the fabric scans and text poster images that I’ve been playing with in my last blog post. I first started playing with this idea a couple of months ago and recently have been making a few more and posting them to my Tumblr blog, which has become sort of an online sketchbook…
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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…
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Between Serendipity & Happenstance
I’ve uploaded new work to my website – my new painting Between Serendipity & Happenstance. I was talking to a friend recently about my most recent self-portrait, To Break Free (Without the Hunter), and he was asking me what the piece was about. I was somewhat reluctant to go into too much detail, as I…
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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…
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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…