Canadian Fine Artist | Original Paintings & Photography
Come Together; connecting over Art in Vancouver, BC The best thing about Art, whether it be a painting, a film or a concert, are the stories behind the work. The ability for the Art to elicit an emotional response, and forge a connection with the viewer, is something of magic. I find that people connect […]
Women in Canadian Art – Celebrating Women’s History Month For many of us our first mentors are our parents. As our world’s grow and change we look to our teachers, our elders and the heroes and heroines in the stories we read and even see on the movie screens. For me, my first mentor in art […]
Three New Paintings – Sharing The View With Loved Ones When I am not in the studio, I am outside exploring with my Nikon camera. I have always enjoyed observing life, appreciating the details, and looking for the connections. One thing I have noticed over the years is how the immense beauty of our natural […]
Becoming the Voice of Canadian Pop Art, how I kept things rolling in 2018 Here are my ‘Art’ highlights from 2018. January – POP Canadianisms are born New paintings, new work expressing a symbolic view on our landscapes and culture of the time. What began as #iconiccanuck in 2011, morphed into #Canadianisms in 2017, this […]
Canadian Art: Remembering and Honouring Canada’s Role in the Wars Every year on November 11th a somber tone blankets Canada, as a Canadian artist this national day of Remembrance has bled into my artwork. Some Canadian artists’ express their thoughts through poetry, music and even film. My chosen mediums are painting and photography and I […]
Being a Canadian artist means you grow up with the images of Canada as painted by the Group of Seven. Whether the landscapes, forests and farms of southern Ontario as painted by A.J. Casson, or A.Y. Jackson’s Georgian Bay, the grandeur of the rocky mountains as imagined by Lawren Harris, or the raw beauty and […]
Celebrating Flag Day with the Canadian Flag in Art With a focus on Canada for the past decade, it was only a matter of time before the Canadian Flag found itself into this body of paintings celebrating the True North. Over the past decade of painting Canada on canvas the Canadian Flag, emblazoned with the […]
Georgia O’ Keeffe’s Hawaii – Making Art in Magical Maui About six years ago after my first trip to explore the landscapes and flora of Maui, I discovered a book written by Maria Ausherman from interviews with Patricia Jennings, about world famous painter, and one of my favorites, Georgia O’Keeffe. The book, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii , focuses […]