Tag Archives: paintings

Art Stories: Fields Across from Rhuddlan Castle, Wales

(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 [...]

Tiny Gem Tuesday: Peeking poppies

Lately, I feel called small – called to the humble, beautiful, gentle things. These are the simple, significant, lovely parts of our lives. I want to paint those things – our food; our little objects, idols and items; our intimate moments. I want to paint the things that feel like pauses in our day. I [...]

Tiny Gem Tuesday! Carrots ‘n things

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Tiny Gem Tuesday! So I’ve decided to just go with my instinct and celebrate how much I love making tiny paintings. They’re so sweet! And colourful! And fun! I feel called small – called to the humble, beautiful, gentle things. These are the simple, significant, lovely parts of our [...]

6 Days: Can you help me get to France?

Lovely, lovely people, I am so pleased to say that I have already passed the halfway mark in raising my tuition money to France. HALF WAY! Can we just pause for a second, take a deep breath, and appreciate how epic that is? Because all of that happened in 3 days. Three days. Dude. Rock [...]

A painting bonanza!

I am so tired, I’m about to fall over. I’m barely stringing together coherent sentences anymore. But I did it. The 6 paintings are finished and delivered to the Pilar Shephard Gallery. And for your enjoyment, here they are:               Most of these titles were made up while I [...]

Finishing.

I would just like to say a big YEEHAW for my new site – if you’re reading this by RSS or by email, you’ll definitely want to click through and check it out. I am super proud of my new baby – blood, sweat, tears, and 5 days straight of coding went into this puppy. [...]

My happy moving sale!

Today, I get the keys to my new apartment. Eeeee! I am so happy, there are no words for it! I get studio space with a window. My current studio is lacking one and with the oil paint fumes, it’s probably not so great for my poor brain cells. But this new space…oooh, I can [...]