Painting

Painted January 2021.  16″x12″.   Painted January 2021.  Acrylic on Canvas. $180.00 Canadian No Frame. I wanted to practice creating a sense of ‘texture’ in my paintings. I also wanted to limit the palette and try more saturated colours. For this practice, I chose a photo I took when visiting the Botanical Gardens in Buenos Aires. They have a spectacular […]

Painted December 2020.  12″ x 12″. Acrylic on cradled wood panel.  $144.00 Canadian.  No Frame. It occurred to me that I had never done a self-portrait, so for my last painting of 2020, I chose to base my self-portrait on a photo that I have from a pre-Covid trip to Puerto Vallarta. Enjoying the sunset from the infinity

Painted November 2020.  12″ x 16″. Acrylic on Canvas.  Price $235.00 Canadian with Frame.  $192.00 Canadian with No Frame. Our home is at the top of a bluff that looks over the Salish Sea. To get down to the shore, is a drop of about 50 feet (accessed by a ramp that is pretty spectacular in it’s own

Summer Memories. Painted October 2020.  16″ x 16″. Acrylic on Canvas.  $256 Canadian.  No Frame. Several years ago, we stopped in to visit my Maggie in her backyard in Calgary. Not only was the company great, but it was a beautiful summer afternoon with a great view of a nesting robin. I’ve been wanting to paint this scene

Painted September 2020.  12″ x 12″. Acrylic on Canvas. This is more permanent version of test study I did in order to play with fluid acrylic. The reference photo was of a chicken with feather that were wackadoodle. It was actually a good learning process to paint the same picture twice. I managed to resolve some

Painted August 2020. 16′ x 12″. Acrylic on Canvas. $225.00 Canadian – Framed. In early Spring, we cleared an acre of blackberry brambles in preparation for cabin building. I wasn’t sure what would re-establish itself over the summer, but I didn’t expect to see a number of tall wild sunflowers. Since we needed to have

 Painted June – July 2020.  ″34.5 x 29″. Acrylic on Canvas. $905.00 Canadian – Unframed. Just North of the highway on my parent’s ranch is a grove of Poplars full of childhood memories. Inside the grove there is a stillness,  away from the constant wind blowing down off the Rockies. Despite this seeming calm, the wind is

Painted April 2020.  12″ x 12″. Acrylic on Canvas This view of the Rockies, is at the top of a hill right behind the house I grew up in. It holds a lot of memories for me. Late winter, brings a warm breeze off the Rockies that starts the snow melting along with the first signs

12”x24”. Pencil on cradled wood panel The start of any new painting is always full of potential. I know that there will be high points and low points before the painting is done. My excitement is akin to riding a roller coaster as the cars leave the station and begins to climb.This particular painting is

SOLD. Winter Freedom.  Painted April 2020, modified November 2021.  18″ x 24″. Acrylic on Canvas. One of the cool things about painting with Acrylic is how almost any mistake can be corrected.  Back at the beginning of the pandemic, I tackled a very challenging painting of a white horse running through a snowy field in winter.  Horses have always