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Painted on November, 2024.  30” x 24”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Unframed. In my painting course, we did a session on broken colour technique, so I thought it would be a good idea to use this technique on my next painting. Small daubs of pure colour are painted on the canvas side-by-side. Your brain takes the […]

Painted on November, 2024.  14” x 18”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $290.00 Framed. I’m taking a course on Acrylic Painting from Vancouver Island University, and it forces me to try out different techniques.  The first week was working with monochromatic paintings and then applying an overglaze on parts of the painting.  The painting is based on a reference photo

Painted on September 2024.  20”x16”. Acrylic on stretched canvas. $340.00 (framed).  I wanted to challenge myself on this painting in a number of ways. It was time I took a crack at another flower painting and was drawn to the complexity of the peony.  However, this time I wanted to explore the boundary between representation and abstraction.

   Painted on August, 2024.  30” x 48”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $1400.00 Unframed. I have a complicated relationship with winter.  On the one hand, it’s a time of peaceful solitutde that I find very rejuvenating.  Conversely, I also find the wet grey weather on the coast can be both oppressive and draining. I wanted to challenge myself with

Painted on August, 2024. 20” x 16”.  Acrylic on strtetched canvas.  Price $320.00 Framed. When it snows on Twin Eagles Bluff, the forest behind the house delivers lots of winter magic.  I painted this picture at Mitch’s request – he wanted a painting to hang in our forest cabin.  We rent out the cabin each summer and have called it

Painted on February 4, 2024.  10” x 10”.  Acrylic on cradled wood panel. Price $125.00 Canadian. 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

Painted August 2023.  12”x12”.  Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. $175.00 Canadian. After a busy summer, I found time to do some painting.  My last painting had been difficult as it required a lot of details (horse, saddle and figure riding the horse).  For this painting I chose a picture of a chicken with beautiful plumage which I painted with simple

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