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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“I will wait.” (61) Painted March 2023. 12”x12”. Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. Price $144.00 Canadian Unframed 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
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