(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 [...]
Category Archives: Art
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 [...]
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 [...]
Art Show Exposé :
Behind the scenes of my one night show, Bon Voyage
March 23, 2012 – 4:18 pm
In 22 days, I’ll be having a one-night show at the Queen Street Commons (224 Queen St.) here in Charlottetown, PEI. (That’s April 14th, by the way.) Titled Bon Voyage, this is my goodbye PEI show, my way of saying thank you to the Island for being such a wonderful place to live these past [...]
The only thing I want for my birthday is…
March 20, 2012 – 10:40 am
France. I promised myself that today, despite all of my fears about getting the rest of this money together and feeling super uncomfortable about promoting myself and asking for money so I can go back to school and not starve and selling my paintings and blah blah blah…. Anyways, I promised myself that today, on [...]
“It’s the idea that art is a kind of mirror.”
February 13, 2012 – 11:53 am
This. The bottom line is spirituality means something that touches you and can touch other people as well. It’s the idea that art is a kind of mirror. You create something in a very selfish way and then when you release it into the world, it becomes a mirror. If other people see themselves reflected [...]
Am I actually expressing myself fully by painting realistically?
February 9, 2012 – 10:27 am
I get a lot of concerned feedback about my choice to be a representational artist. People worry that I’m not “fully expressing myself”. They wish I would just “let loose” and really “pour myself into the work.” I wrote about this in more depth a while ago here, along with offering tips on giving [...]
