Painting

Painted on February 4, 2024.  10” x 10”.  Acrylic on cradled wood panel. 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 silhouette of the […]

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

“I will wait.”  Painted March 2023.  12”x12”.  Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. 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 find new levels of patience inside myself.

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“Surfing the Sou-easter.” Painted November 2022.  16”x20”.  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

“Into Darkness Peering.” Painted November 2022.  16”x16”.  Acrylic on stretched Canvas. Ravens visit our stretch of the coast each year, usually when the Eagles are away fishing during the early Fall salmon runs.  They roost in the tall Alder trees at the bottom of the ramp, so it’s easy to sit quietly and listen to