oil painting on stretched canvas of a hardy pirouette begonia in front of a backdrop of a sunset with the horizon turned on it’s side. The many clouds in the sky are shown with the colours inverted, what’s dark is light and what’s white is dark

THE INSPIRATION for Inversion

This idea of seeing what we think we see instead of actually seeing these things as they truly are was something that was brought to my attention when I was quite young studying to be an artist. Take a look at my blog on this series. to learn more about Inversion. Here I have shown many images that … Read more

Phase II of the Inversion series explores our indelible mark left on the Great Bear Rainforest

Inversion: Phase II The Spirit Bear

In this Phase II: Inversion: Spirit Bear Paintings, I explore the Spirit Bear and the Great Bear Rainforest.  Still looking at our footprint on the environment and sometimes the ever-changing and developing geopolitical landscape we have in Canada, Phase II focuses on the Spirit Bear and how I, a white 2nd generation Canadian and an … Read more

oil painting on stretched canvas of a hardy pirouette begonia in front of a backdrop of a sunset with the horizon turned on it’s side. The many clouds in the sky are shown with the colours inverted, what’s dark is light and what’s white is dark

Inversion

This idea of seeing what we think we see instead of actually seeing these things as they truly are was something that was brought to my attention when I was quite young studying to be an artist. Take a look at my blog on this series. to learn more about Inversion. Here I have shown many images that … Read more

closeup of water on ground

It’s in our Nature

This is a series I started exploring because of what happened this past spring on our morning walk. As we crossed over the bridge at Maxwell Park behind the Prosserman JCC, we noticed the ravine, which is part of the whole Don River system in the GTA, was full of white foam—as tho someone had … Read more

masked

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the surface many of our deep-seated fears around the “Other”. In this time we have found many of us cocooning and longing for closeness and connectedness in a safe and secure space, while we have looked outward at other communities, nations, peoples—even our neighbours. Are they respecting restrictions? Are … Read more

Digital “Watercolour Painting of octopii in Lake Ontario

octopus’ garden

I became fascinated with Octopuses after watching a documentary last year about a man who developed the most fantastic friendship with an Octopus. I was amazed by how intelligent and sentient they are. It became obvious that they experience attachment, fear, and other emotions, just as humans do—Probably just as most of the animal world … Read more

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