Painting

Painted in Nov. and Dec, 2024.  20” x 16”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $320.00 Cdn. – Framed. Our West Coast home is a world away from the hot desert surrounding Alice Springs, Australia.  Hidden within this landscape are a number of natural swimming holes.  My favourite was the Ellery Big Hole.  The water was clear and cool and the surrounding […]

Painted in Dec, 2024.  14”x11”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed. Glass and highly reflective surfaces are a challenge with acrylic paint. It’s hard to blend and when you add white, the paint often feels flat. For this challenge, I chose a small metallic apple Christmas decoration and put it on the kitchen counter in

Painted in Dec, 2024.  14”x 11”.  Acrylic on stretched canvas.  Price $140.00 Cdn. – unframed.  I’m working on a series of still lives and this is a painting of a potted plant house warming present from some neighbours. I love the textured pot and the array of green succulent stems that created the most interesting shadows on the

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