Tag: Blog Post
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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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Fridays & Friends #1 – Mary Porter
There are many things that start with the letter F. A few of my favourites are feathers, fairies, fencing, fiber optics, fire, fistfights, freedom and frost…in no particular order. But near the top of that list would be Fridays and friends. In my travels over the past 10 years, for school and residencies and the…
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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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Lying down in blue
Here are some more photos from the Blue series that I made in my last week at Ox-Bow: ***** *****