painting Archives - A Drop of Wonder Studio Blog

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

It has been an incredible past few weeks since the opening of my exhibition A Handmade Night at Ian Tan Gallery. My heart was so full seeing friends from my personal life, from my work and my ...

Vancouver Exhibition: A Handmade Night

I am very excited to be able to share with you some new work which pulls from one of my favourite writers Rebecca Solnit. You can see the work in the portfolio section of my website ...

Opening Reception: A Handmade Night

I'm noticing that I'm looking into my own work to mine for new paintings and collages. In a previous post, I shared the process behind my mini collages on paper. I created four new paintings on paper ...

Mining My Own Work – Paintings & Collages

Works on Paper

Scrapyard Chronicles

Chance Encounters

Building Perspective

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

This new series of artwork explores the chance beauty of everyday materials and textural elements within our urban environment. Come to the opening reception to check out my new paintings and enjoy ...

Art Show Opening – Chance Encounters

Here's an exhibit in which I'm involved with from the other side as an assistant curator. Towards the end of last year, I started meeting with another professional artist, Jeanne Krabbendam, to ...

Curating an Art Show Part 1: Breaking Ground

I've always thought about making a painting inspired by music and the theme for this upcoming exhibit gave me the opportunity to do just that. Music plays a key part in my art process as it not only ...

Art Show Opening – Good Vibrations: Music & Dance in Art

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

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

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