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 […]
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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
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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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SOLD. “I have one thing to say.” Painted December 2022. 12”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. I’ve been wanting to tackle a cow painting for a while and the opportunity came up the other day, so I grabbed it. I probably didn’t spend as much time observing cows as I should have growing up, considering that they
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Nothing works quite like hosting an enchanted Christmas forest walk for the neighbourhood to fast track into the festive season. Mitch with some help from neighbours, did a great job clearing new paths and getting everything set up. It’s amazing that an entire forest can be lit with only three plug-ins available. Without LED lights,
“Storms a brewin’.” Painted December 2022. 20”x30”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. A couple of months ago, I did a painting based on an overnight stay on Powell lake at a friend’s beautiful floating house across from Goat Island. There was something not sitting right about my previous painting of this range of mountains. The painting didn’t express either the
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SOLD. “You lookin’ at me?” Painted November 2022. 16”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. Growing up on a ranch you are aware that animals aren’t all fluffy pets and need to be treated with respect. Certain parts of our barnyard were particularly unnerving because of a couple of unholy roosters that got immense pleasure in terrorizing us children. They would
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“Time is on my side.” Painted November 2022. 16”x16”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. This is the third painting in my series about coastal birds. The Great Blue Heron is a common visitor to the Twin Eagles Bluff. They nest in a rookery, high in the trees only a few hundred meters away from the house. With a nest full of
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“A Grand Entrance.” Painted November 2022. 20”x16”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. About a ten minute drive South of the family ranch is a small gem of a national park. Hugging the border with Montana and British Columbia, Waterton Lakes National Park is a beautiful slice of the Alberta Rocky Mountains and (until recently) a quieter, less touristy version
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“Surfing the Sou-easter.” Painted November 2022. 16”x16”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. I’m working on a series about wild birds that frequent our home on Twin Eagles Bluff. For the second painting in this series, I chose the Bald Eagle. Not only do we have a nesting pair that live in the big fir tree behind the house, but the
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