Painted on February 4, 2024. 10” x 10”. Acrylic on cradled wood panel. Taking the ferry from qathet, heading South to Vancouver, always leaves me with a slight sense of melancholy. If you take the 6:00 pm ferry in March, you may be treated to a spectacular sunset that can’t help but lighten your mood. A silhouette of the […]
“Sunsets last embrace.” Read More »
I have always primed my canvases with one colour or another before I get into the nitty gritty of the actual painting process. There is an advantage at working on a canvas that is no longer just a white sheet of nothingness and the background colour can also help to unify the painting. Today, I’m
Colourful Beginnings: Letting colour speak for itself. Read More »
2023 was a challenging year. But it was also a year of rebuilding, refocusing and realigning. By year’s end, significant steps were made and hefty obstacles were overcome. Not everything has been resolved, but it feels like the clouds are lifting. The start of 2024 is showing great promise and I can feel an energy around Twin Eagles Bluff
2024: Starting the year anew. Read More »
Another Christmas season in qathet has come and gone. The biggest change from last year is that we are actually living on the Bluff. This has made setup and break-down a lot easier and on evenings when the Enchanted Christmas Forest is open to the neighbours, its a short walk to the house once we’ve
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Even bears get bored with digging for grubs or stripping blackberries off bushes. This September we learned an important lesson. Do NOT leave inflatables out where the bears can find them. We lost two rubber rafts and an inflatable lounger this summer. It was clear that an animal had bitten into them, but it wasn’t until we caught this
The importance of Play! Read More »
Spring has officially sprung on the West Coast, and I’m starting to feel a sense of renewal and rejuvenation. The days are getting longer, the flowers are starting to bloom, and the air is filled with excitement and possibility. The arrival of sunshine and warmth is a welcome change, an invitation to embrace the lighter, brighter
“Sunshine and Smiles: Spring Arrives on the West Coast” Read More »
“I will wait.” Painted March 2023. 12”x12”. Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. I’ve been ruminating on the idea of patience lately. Entanglements have been slow to untangle. Expectations that seemed realistic, lie crumpled on the ground, trampled by missed deadlines. Problems that should have been resolved weeks ago, have remained stubbornly unresolved. I’m learning to find new levels of patience inside myself.
One of my favourite things to do in the morning is sit at the breakfast table with a big cup of steaming coffee, plan out my day and do a scan of the Salish Sea to see if I can see any Orcas, Humpbacks or Sea Lions from our perch at the top of the
It’s a good morning on the Salish Sea. Read More »
Patience is my middle name. After twenty long months, we were able to move into the Art Studio part of our new house on Twin Eagles Bluff – finally! It’s 900 square feet of coziness looking out over the Salish Sea. It will be our new home while we finish off the main part of
Life is full of new beginnings. Read More »
The inexorable march of a king tide this past Boxing Day is worth a blog entry. On normal tides there will always be at least ten or twenty feet of dry ground above the high water mark, before you hit the edge of the blackberry bushes, the scrub alder and the wild rose tangles. Over
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