Category: In the studio
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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…
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Echoes of purple
I can’t believe how both quickly and slowly the past four weeks have gone by. I’ve got one more week here and Ox-Bow and am just finishing up my second painting. Since I work in oils, I have to give my paintings enough time to dry in order to wrap them and bring them back…
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Cotton candy sunsets
After a rainy day, the sunset on the lagoon here at Ox-Bow was beautiful. Cotton candy colours. And here are some photos of my current piece, in progress. It’s coming along, slowly but surely. One of two paintings I’m working on concurrently.