I bumped into a new collector at the grocery store yesterday morning, and after joking that she was shocked to see me not chained to the easel, she asked me a really great question. She asked if, since I was painting so much and with such an imminent deadline, did the painting stop being a [...]
Author Archives: Sarah
Welsh fields: a series in progress
April 6, 2012 – 4:02 pm
I wrote the other day about the fields across from Rhuddlan Castle but as it happens, that wasn’t the only painting from that shoot. I fell in love with those rich purple-greens and the soft grey light, so there’s actually five. This is where they start out… (this is the one piece I haven’t had [...]
A Bridge for Faeries: an almost finished painting
April 5, 2012 – 10:35 am
(This is a work in progress for my one-night show, Bon Voyage on April 14th, here in Charlottetown, PEI. To read more about it, click here.) There’s something about this ancient bridge and soft lighting that captures my imagination. It’s charming, enchanting. I used to love faeries as a child and collected the Flower Fairy [...]
Down by the River Cam: A trio of paintings in progress
April 4, 2012 – 9:46 am
(This is a work in progress for my one-night show, Bon Voyage on April 14th, here in Charlottetown, PEI. To read more about it, click here.) Grantchester Meadows is one of my favourite places. Not necessarily the main part, full of chairs and tables, trees and people, but through the trees and beyond, to the [...]
Shame & Gold Stickers: Finding peace in the process
April 2, 2012 – 10:35 am
This morning, I am sitting and breathing into the anxiety. My calendar tells me that it’s April. I’m not sure how that happened. At the end of this month, I’m moving what remains of my belongings to my parents’ house in Ontario, and then on May 21st, I’m flying to France with a couple [...]
Paintings galore!
April 1, 2012 – 8:26 am
Live on PEI? Then come see these pieces and more in person on Saturday April 14th, from 7-10pm at the Queen Street Commons, 224 Queen Street in Charlottetown. There will be wine, French desserts and fabulous people. Click here to find out more. Don’t live nearby? Join my newsletter to get invited to the online [...]
Will you let yourself thrive?
March 30, 2012 – 4:53 pm
I’m doing something a little different today – there’s no art story, but instead there’s some art wallpaper. Today, I needed to remind myself that going for my wild n’ crazy dreams is not selfish or evil. I find, as I move towards my Giant French Art Dream, that my inner struggle is about always [...]
Art Stories: The Clock Tower (French town at sunset)
March 29, 2012 – 3:14 pm
(This is a work in progress for my one-night show, Bon Voyage on April 14th, here in Charlottetown, PEI. To read more about it, click here.) I’d walked this path before, on my first night in this rural French town. It was dark then, almost midnight, when we’d all wandered the path around the orchard, [...]
Art Stories: Trees by a French River
March 28, 2012 – 10:50 am
(This is a work in progress for my one-night show, Bon Voyage on April 14th, here in Charlottetown, PEI. To read more about it, click here.) It had been cold, autumn cold, for over a week. Then suddenly, the weather broke and the sun returned like a long lost friend. The sun was setting as [...]
Art Stories: Fields Across from Rhuddlan Castle, Wales
March 27, 2012 – 4:12 pm
(This is a work in progress for my one-night show, Bon Voyage on April 14th, here in Charlottetown, PEI. To read more about it, click here.) The castle is old and crumbling yet it still retains its majesty. Industrial complexes and cold hard buildings, cheap, thrown up in the 70s, encroach on the fields and [...]
