Sep 25, 20161 min readBeautiful BaddeckCame home Tuesday from a week in beautiful Baddeck, Cape Breton. I was teaching a four-day workshop on abstract painting. There were...
Sep 20, 20161 min readChaosThere has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....
Aug 14, 20161 min readGloryAccording to Proust, “Artists are people who strip habit away and return life to its deserved glory.” I’ll go along with that! Definitely...
Aug 1, 20161 min readTidbitesYou’ve heard of sound bites, right. Tidbits of sound. Well, I’m into painting bites. Tidbits of time to paint. It’s working though, doing...
Aug 1, 20161 min readHappiness is . . .Romeo and I went to Martinique Beach yesterday. Five kilometers of crescent white sand beach. It was his first visit to the ocean. He...
May 17, 20161 min readHow things workThere is a small room off the large gallery at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. We decided to put small paintings in the small room...
Nov 28, 20141 min readWhat’s nextI’ve been obsessing a bit recently about the painting hanging over my piano now for about three years. I didn’t want to sell it for a...
Jun 10, 20132 min readDirect Perception 2013Back home after four exhilarating, exhausting and productive days as one of three teachers at the Direct Perception Workshop in...
Apr 15, 20132 min readDirect perception for a dayAshburn Golf Course in April, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Despite the snow and cold Friday night (after all, this is only April in...