Painting

Painted in April-July, 2026. 30”x24”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $900.00 Cdn. Unframed It’s been a long and winding road, but this is my 100th painting.  Over eight and a half years, I’ve explored different subjects, techniques and mediums.  Step by step, I’ve found my style (or it’s found me) and I am finally beginning to create the kind […]

Painted in April, 2026. 12”x12”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $180.00 Cdn. Unframed In preparation for my next big painting, I wanted to try a small still life that focussed on shadow and light. For subject matter I chose a simple pear, nestled within a drop cloth. Since there was a strong light source coming in from

Painted in March/April, 2026. 12”x12”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $180.00 Cdn. Unframed This is my seventh painting of a chicken over an eight-year period.  I can see a definite evolution in my style as interpreted through this simple barnyard fowl.  My technique is becoming more refined with a gentle hand on the brush and an increase in contrast

Painted in March, 2026. 24”x24”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Cdn. (Unframed) Riding horses is an integral part of life on a working cattle ranch.  Although we had a number of horses to choose from, My favourite was a small buckskin we named Bimbo.  This horse miraculously appeared one Spring, trotting beside his mother, a sweet Albino

Painted in February 2026. 24”x24”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Cdn. (Unframed) There are some scenes that live permanently in my head, and which I will forever try capturing through paint and canvas.  At the top of that list would be morning sunrises over the Alberta foothills.  As the prairie stretches out to the East, the earliest

Painted in January/Februay, 2026. 12”x12”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $180.00 Cdn. Unframed Growing up on a ranch involves working with a lot of different animals that you build connections with, on a daily basis. My milk cow’s name was Buttercup. I bottle fed her for the first year of her life, then had to bring

Painted in January, 2026. 12”x12”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $144.00 Cdn. Unframed This painting is part of a series of farm animals that I’m currently working on.  It’s an experimental painting where I’m trying to create a sense of texture using high contrast values and intense saturated colour against a dark muted background.  I’m not sure if

“The Four Amigos”.  Painted December 2025. 36” x 36”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas. $1,620.00 CND. (unframed). This is the first in a series of paintings that I am doing, where the subject matter are animals that had a big impact on my life growing up on a ranch. Over the years we had a variety of

Painted in November, 2025. 12”x12”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $200.00 Cdn., (Unframed.)  As part of my university painting course, we did one session on the grisaille painting technique. I chose to do a self-portrait, because the technique is well suited to portraiture.  I’ve been trying to get a smoother portrait style in my paintings

Painted in Aug./Sept. 2025. 30”x24”.   Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $720.00 Cdn. Unframed Morning breaks on the Eastern slopes of the Rockies like a wave of fire when the sun is still below the horizon, but the early sunlight is bent towards red and orange by the atmosphere.  High clouds that were dark and purple, suddenly burst