Thanks to my my friend and studio mate Tristesse Seeliger, she created this great 25 minute video about my work and process. I have included her description from her YouTube ...

Video: Artist Interview with Tristesse Seeliger

Since the beginning of the year, it's been a challenge to get in large blocks of time at the studio as I have had to work longer hours in my day job.  So nowadays I've been trying to squeeze in ...

Making Paper Collages – Fast & Mini

As part of my ongoing journey as a visual artist, last year I came across an interview of illustrator Lisa Congdon thanks to artist Christina Norberg.  It was an interview that is a part of the ...

Process of Becoming an Artist

I am excited to exhibit a new series of work that I have been working on for the past 7 months. The basis for this series was conceived after visit to a local scrapyard. It led me to think about ...

Art Exhibit Opening – Scrapyard Chronicles

I had long admired the work of artist Lisa Ochowycz and got a glimpse of her process at an Opus artist demo a couple of years ago. I was intrigued both for her style of painting and how she prepared ...

Learning Abstract Painting

I've always been interested in the use of text and poetry as part of my art process. Having read Letters to a Young Poet by poet Rainer Maria Rilke, I decided to start a series of paintings based ...

Art Process – Poetry and scrapmetal

Vivian Maier - Street Photographer Photographs are integral pieces of my work but they are also part of the milieu of ideas that I gather for new paintings.  I thought I would share two of the ...

Photography Inspiration

I started this painting last fall but didn't get a chance to get back to it until this October. Below are photos of how the painting developed over several stages. I took inspiration from Derek ...

New Painting – Riding the Storm

I was in Seattle at the end of June when this book caught my eye at the University Bookstore.  As soon as I opened the book, Paperwork,  and saw the art of Peter Clark, I knew I had to take the ...

More Collage Ideas with Paperwork

  I picked up the latest issue of Uppercase Magazine with the intention of taking it to read while I was on vacation this summer. But it never did make it on the trip because I couldn’t ...

Collage Inspiration

Art Process – Reasons to Make Art

  In this new painting, I was particularly drawn to the area taken in the photograph which is the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Substation in North Vancouver. I had driven by this area many ...

New Painting – A Passing Glimpse

Painting Inspiration – Uppercase Magazine

For this piece, I was inspired by the process of writing letters and wanted to also celebrate the elegance of text. When you start to write, your mind delves out a flow of ideas that take shape as ...

New Painting – Solace in Writing

I finally completed the painting pictured below last month. It was in progress when I showed it at the Drift in September. I asked viewers to think of someone in their life and to write a sentence or ...

New Painting – Tribute

I had the pleasure of meeting Arnt Arntzen at his open studio during the Eastside Culture Crawl in November. For the past few years, I had popped in to admire his amazing “functional sculptures” ...

Art Process – New Painting Inspiration


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