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Teaching Art Workshops
Taught a great 2 day workshop...12 hours of instruction. It was great fun with awesome students. The class was about 30 percent fairly new artists, 30 percent intermediate and 30 percent advanced. Always hard to do a good class that covers all abilities but I kind of...
Le7 Tmicw meaning Good Earth
In Salmon Arm at the SAGA gallery we are now sharing an art show that deals with the positive news that so often is missed. The focus is on successes in our fight to protect the earth, the water and it's animals. My painting is on a recycled artwork from years ago. My...
On the cover of BC Outdoors Magazine
Pretty exciting to have my artwork on the cover of BC Outdoors Magazine and a nice full page article inside the magazine. Thank you to the magazine and to the Pacific Salmon Foundation!
Artwork Placemats
Mom and I were having the same issue...we needed a cheery happy placemat that was easy to wipe clean and did not need to be put into the laundry. I could not find any that I liked ...so I asked my wonderful printer to laminate some of my artwork to do the job. Here...
Thank you to my Art Collectors
Just want to take this moment to thank all of you that have been such great supporters and encouragers of my artwork. it is so APPRECIATED! The purchase of my original artworks, prints, cards, placemats and books is such a help to me. The beautiful comments and...
My Paintings are for Sale 🙂
Hello, I just want to confirm that YES my paintings are for sale. I hope that it is clear from my website and my social media that these paintings are available. This is both my passion and my business. Also want to let you know that i am happy to create a custom...
Salmon Prints all signed!
Well it took a while but I have numbered and signed all the 150 prints of my painting "Rapid Ascent" for the Pacific Salmon Foundation. What an honour to be part of this conservation program to help protect the salmon and their environment while working on...
Pacific Salmon Foundation Stamp Winner
So very pleased to win the Pacific Salmon Foundation Stamp contest with my painting Rapid Ascent. What an honour to be part of this program that supports healthy waters and healthy fish. Fish are such an important and wonderful part of our ecosystem. We have always...
Tidying the Website
Ok, I am looking forward to tidying up the website and making it a bit more streamline. So I will be getting to that sometime soon....so watch for a that coming up. Lots of artwork is available for gifts for Christmas...check out Available art category. Also...
Dogs, Cats, Horses, Rabbits and more – Custom Animal Artwork
What a pleasure to paint the animals that you love as a custom artwork for your home. At the bottom of the stairs I have this painting of Buddy, my horse...his portrait brings a smile every morning as I come down to put on the coffee before we go out to feed him in...
Open Studio Oct 22, 2022
Hello everyone, if you are in Salmon Arm area on Oct 22, 2022 between 10-4;00pm please stop by the studio. It is a Nature & Wildlife Art show & sale. I would sure like to see you and have a great art visit. All sizes of art available and with you will get a...
Lift Off & Soar – A 33 foot painting for your huge display wall.
"Lift Off & Soar" is by far the largest painting I have done to date (3x33 feet). What a huge painting to create. it is 7 panels of a flock of Canadian geese lifting off a lake and flying away. A celebration of waterscapes, nature and flight. It was created for a...
“Wild Elements” a new series with a difference
Just wanted to introduce a new series for 2022, "Wild Elements." These new paintings have a bit different style while still sharing my love tor wildlife. They are a combination of wildlife and habitat with a geometric shape, misty pattern with a graduation of colour...
Horse Lovers
I have always been a horse lover. When I was about 12 years old, my brothers and I were lucky enough to get two lovely mares. A big buckskin named Shawny and a smaller Arab named Christie. They were great horses, we loved them and spent many happy hours with them...
Field work for my Art
It is the field work that creates the passion that keeps me painting the long hours that it takes to create wildlife art. The excitement of seeing the animals in their natural habitat living their lives. We are so fortunate to live in the interior of BC just minutes...
Big Horn Rams in art
Big Horn Sheep - Seems like a funny subject for fine art but there is something so impressive and prehistoric about these agile big horned animals. The sheer mass on the tops of their heads...a twisting curling challenge and defence. They are beautiful but strange,...
January is almost done
The first month of the year 2922 is almost done. My year has started out differently than I expected. Yet it has been so great to have lots of time with family. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family. Grateful to each and everyone one of them for their...
A new year 2022
Well we have jumped into a new year and I wish every one a wonderful healthy happy 2022. Lets make this year the best yet!
Love the mountains
I do love the mountains that surround Salmon Arm and the larger rocky mountain ranges that form the back bone of our province. It is in all these mountains that I find my inspiration. The rocks themselves are so incredible, craggy combinations of elements that are...
Pet Portraits
It is indeed pretty obvious that I love animals. They have been such an important part of my life. We have had as pets everything from hamsters to cows and horses....and I have loved having them all. Each of them with their own personality. My girls grew up with...
Whimsy Art
Sometimes I have a cute or funny idea in my head. After a while of percolating on it, I just have to paint it to get it out of my head. My whimsy art is all about silly and fun. A thought or idea that makes me smile. The cute or silly factor of an animal in a...
Wonderful People
This year has been an odd one...with Covid, extreme drought and the BC wild fires. I sure can't say that I have enjoyed it. Lots was scary, worrying and sad. But I am so grateful to have had such wonderful people around me. While we have not had the chance to see...
Have a great Day!
Wishing you all a Great Day! Sometime I forget to do write this blog and let everyone know how it is going in the studio. It has been a great busy year with lots of paintings being created. I work hard to create the very best artwork that I can ....make better...
Wonderful to create Commissions
It is awesome to be invited to create a unique artwork. To take their special idea to create some brand new ....something unique that will always speak to their heart. This is artwork to celebrate the love of your pets or bring your happy wild place into your living...
Re-Doing This Website
Hello all, if you have been watching you may have noticed that my website disappeared from the web for a bit. Tech problems happen and unfortunately the site failed...and I lost about 9 months of information, photos, blogs etc. But I am so grateful to my wonderful...
wow 2020 what a year???
Well it has been a year to remember and we are only at Sept. I am.... as so many already looking forward to being past this year and looking back at it as a memory. Hopefully soon the pandemic will be over but I know that will not be as soon as we all would like. ...
Lost Song
This painting is addressing the sad fact that we are losing our songbirds due to the poisons that we use to increase our yields of crops. The pesticides kill not only the bugs but all the creatures that eat the bugs too. Lost Song is a painting of barn swallows flying...
Wearing the points off my brushes
Was just looking for a beautiful point on a brush to create that wonderful flash of reflection in the eye of my animal on the easel. The brush needs to come to a marvellous sharp point while still holding enough paint to do the job. All the ones in use have worn down...
Getting Out There
We do allot of hiking, we head out and up the trails systems in BC and sometimes we just scramble up the hillside above us without using the trails (Neil is better at full on cross country than I am, boy can he hike) We do it to enjoy nature and see the animals that...
Collecting
I am collecting all the time. Collecting little bits of nature...pinecones, stones, dried leaves and feathers...for their beauty and so I will know what they really look like to paint them. Creating and collecting photos of nature, all the animals, the mountain side,...