A beautiful triptych of personal Granville Island scenes; now a part of the “Swift Collection” Each painting in this grouping is strong enough to stand as an independent work and each demands something to be written about it. Granville Island is not often a choice of subject for my paintings as it can be a [...]
Walking to the market, Sunday morning I find it curious that inspiration and images can take hold at the simplest of times. There are the foraging days when I am actively searching for my muse and hunting down my subjects. I am always rewarded but true inspiration is often illusive. Then there are the days [...]
The Granville Island Public Market on a cool summer’s morning before the rush arrives. The corner in question is one which I admire often, the Granville Island Produce store where the staff spend hours sorting each berry as they build their towers of fruit. I love the cool of the atmosphere and the reflections [...]
Happy Holidays and may 2012 see you sprinting! Is this email not displaying correctly? . In an ball in the bin sits 5 pages of crumpled research containing trivia about Christmas in Lesotho. I know .. I chose this as it was the nearest country to the area in South [...]
Vancouver painting of the Granville Bridge from the north side of the seawall along False Creek. What a struggle! 5 days of rain just completed but the weather report promised 5 more. 1 glorious day to eat as much as possible and what a bountiful feast. Between the first dusting of snow on the mountains, [...]
So much happens within the frame of this painting. I love the location (by the entrance to Granville Island) and I love the subject but to capture the scene is intense. There are thousands of little elements: the ropes, the masts, the sails, the layers upon layers of boats, the water, the city, the bridge. [...]
June 2013
4 June - 14 June 2013
July 2013
2 July - 7 July 2013
