Tag: Blog Post
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In Store Demo – Granville Island Opus
A Happy New Year to all! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. After relaxing for a few weeks, it’s time to get back into things and January is a busy start to a new year…a new decade even! I will be giving an in-store demonstration on miniature portrait painting at the Granville Island…
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Looking to the New Year
January will be a busy month, as The Return Home will go on show in Toronto and then travel west to Calgary. The Kingston Prize traveling exhibition is well under way, having just wrapped up the show in Nova Scotia, it is now on it’s way to Waddington’s Auction Rooms in Toronto. The Toronto show…
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It’s all in the details
I’ve always thought that a title is very important to a piece of work. A lot of thought goes into my titles, even when they look very simple, there is either a reason for that or it has a hidden meaning. I don’t really like when works are called “Untitled”, unless there is a reason…
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Looking to Raphael
I have always worked in two veins…one which is very personal and one which is more “public”, for lack of a better word. The people in the paintings in The Way We Were are from pop culture print media, referencing old department store catalogues and pulp romance novels. While they are paintings of people, these…
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Word around town
Thanks to the Crawl, I’ve been mentioned on a couple of blogs: Searching For Style is a new fashion and trends blog set up by Alexandra Suhner Isenberg, who recently moved back to her hometown of Vancouver after carving out a successful fashion career in Paris and London for the past twelve and a half…