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Painted in, July 2025. 19.5” x 15.75”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $310.00 Cdn. Unframed I wanted this still life to be a meditation on light and shadow.  Where cast shadows created shapes and reflecting light told its own story.  The tulips reminded me of simple notes on a musical score, and I used the idea of music […]

Painted in July, 2025. 16”x12”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $192.00 Cdn. Unframed Late Fall brings some spectacular storm clouds to the Salish Sea.  Especially when they are lit by the setting sun.  In this painting, I wanted to capture the full range of colours from dark blue, green and purple to blazing yellow, orange, and pink hues.  There

Painted in July, 2025. 12”x9”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $108.00 Cdn. Unframed Painting realistic portraits is always a big challenge.  Since I haven’t tackled one in about four years, it was long overdue. I found a photo of my mother taken during her last visit to Vancouver six years ago, in late September.  She was sitting in our

Painted in June/July, 2025. 30”x24”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Cdn. Unframed Some of my best reference photos come about when I’m least expecting them.  Seven years ago we had a wonderful time exploring New Zealand.  Heading towards Waipu beach on the North Island, we stopped at a lookout that had a beautiful view across rolling green

Painted in May, 2025. 10”x10”.  Acrylic on wood panel.  Price $80.00 Cdn. Unframed Red sky in the morning; sailor’s warning. Red sky at night; sailor’s delight. I will often use the last remnants of paint on my palette to tone a new canvas.  I paint wet on wet which produces a very spontaneous painting in a very short

Painted in July, 2025. 12”x12”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $144.00 Cdn. Unframed The first year I put up a hummingbird feeder, the local hummingbirds that normally depend on Blackberry bushes and wildflowers went mad for the free and abundant sugar water.  They would drain the feeder in a day and then flit around looking for more

Painted in June, 2025. 14”x11”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.    Price $154.00 Cdn. Unframed Periodically, I like to paint chickens or roosters.  It’s a palate cleanser between courses, where I can explore different colour combinations and techniques.  Fortunately, there is a wide range of chicken types to choose from.  An endless variety of textures, colours, silhouettes and shapes to

Painted in May and June, 2025. 20”x16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $320.00 Cdn. Framed One of the things I find fascinating about farm animals is the strong bonds they create with other animals and sometimes with people. Cows, in particular, will often pair up with another cow and spend the day grazing side by side.  These

Painted in February/March, 2025.  18”x24”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $435.00 Cdn. – unframed. The city of Amalfi lies at the mouth of a deep ravine on Mount Cerreto.  Several times a day we would climb the 278 steps from the town centre up to our bed & breakfast looking out over the ocean.  Our path wound through a maze

Painted in April, 2025.  16”x12”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $220.00 Cdn. Framed As Spring has hit the West Coast, I wanted to get in the right mood for my big landscaping project by doing another flower painting.  This time I chose to paint some wild Blanket flowers (Gaillardia aristata). Due to their deer resistant properties and the