The single white stroke on the front cyclist’s back and the little dashes which magically conjure the rear cyclist’s helmet, epitomize the reason I paint. These strokes are the culmination of a thousand previous strokes and are so simple that it would have been easy to miss them while painting. It is becoming increasingly clear [...]
Pulling out of the driveway on that last morning and knowing that life was changing, I whispered good bye to the house I had known since birth and the street light which had kept me company as I waited for sleep each night. My street light. I never knew her name and my daytime expeditions [...]
A full year in the seeking but here she is. The perfect Vancouver stormy light. You know the moment when the clouds have descended, the sun is either beginning to set or she is hidden by cloud density, the atmosphere is dark and charged but suddenly the sun slips through. Slicing the air and bouncing [...]
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, [...]
Painting of tug boats moored next to the Vancouver Ports, view from Crab Park. The struggle: the harmonization of the overall blue tones with the punctuating browns of the pier and the reds of the life saving equipment on the tugs. The secret: Keeping the blues just slightly tinted with red so that there were [...]
Vanier Park, in front of the maritime museum. There is a little bit of magic in this area for me after having viewed the fireworks from here in our first year in Vancouver and then having had a picnic here when the tall ships were in town. The drawing for ‘Kitsilano” was completed on the [...]
June 2013
4 June - 14 June 2013
July 2013
2 July - 7 July 2013
