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(A Poem That You Wrote, no. 3; 60″ x 72″; oil & collage on canvas) I have one of the paintings from the Saint Mary’s exhibit hanging in...
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Dec 2, 20161 min read
A Poem You Wrote
(Coincidentally, no. 1; 38″ x 46″; oil & collage on canvas) I had an exhibit up for three weeks in Halifax at the Secord Gallery. They...
Oct 8, 20161 min read
Dog-Time
I live in a neighborhood where almost every house has a dog or two, all ages. I can think of five pups under two years just within a...
Sep 29, 20161 min read
What’s the story
Here I am trying to explain the unexplainable. Not easy but interesting to try. Abstract art is non-verbal communication, not about...
Sep 25, 20161 min read
Beautiful Baddeck
Came 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 read
Chaos
There has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....
Aug 28, 20161 min read
Because of the Duck
(“Because of the Duck, no. 13″; 12″ x 12”; oil & collage on canvas) Because of the puppy and the fact that I will be teaching in Baddeck,...
Aug 14, 20161 min read
Glory
According 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 read
Tidbites
You’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 read
Happiness 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...
Jul 26, 20161 min read
Beautiful Watch Hill, Rhode Island
Three of my paintings have recently traveled to beautiful Watch Hill, RI. On the walls now at the Lily Pad Gallery, they represent a new...
Jul 22, 20162 min read
Two Lilas
I took Romeo to the other lake yesterday afternoon. This lake stays very shallow for quite a ways out so it is a wonderful playground for...
Jul 15, 20161 min read
It’s that time of year
The Peggy’s Cove Area Festival of the Arts Studio Tour is on for the next three days. Studio Tour invitation. It’s from 10 am to 5 pm. My...
Jul 12, 20162 min read
Here’s Romeo!
He’s an eight week old Portuguese Water Dog. I brought him back home last night after two days of travel to the other end of Cape Breton...
Jul 3, 20161 min read
Got the blues
Lately, I’ve been struggling with blue. Again. I have several blue paintings on the go and each of them seems to have a different problem...
Jun 13, 20161 min read
Living the toreador
I love a challenge. Keeps me on my toes. Of course, painting is that, always. As well, I’ve been having a great time lately teaching....
May 27, 20161 min read
Suppose we do
Yesterday, when painting, I had a major insight about how to work with the color field. I have been working on some blue paintings, not...
May 22, 20161 min read
Starting again (and again)
I’ve often heard it is hard to work when you have an exhibit on. I’ve not experienced that before now. Usually when I have work up in a...
May 17, 20161 min read
How things work
There 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...
May 10, 20161 min read
Amazing
On April 30, Jacinte Armstrong, dancer, Sageev Oore, composer and pianist and Nick Halley, percussion, danced and made music in dialogue...
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