Category: Art
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Two Pairs of Lovers
Here’s a photo I took, just to show the scale of things… They’re hanging on my studio wall at the moment. I’m not sure if I prefer working smaller or larger…the larger couple, The Painted Lovers, isn’t actually that big…it’s about 30 inches tall (the longest I could cut one piece of wood with on…
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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?
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Spring – Pink & Blue Blooms
It’s good to be back in the studio and working again. I’ve been busy working on the wood cut outs I made in Banff, but I didn’t have enough time while there to actually paint them. Trying something different this time, the way that I’m painting the flowers. We’ll see how it looks when the…
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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…
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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…