I’m offering this piece as one of my occasional draws. Send a screenshot of a donation to a charity of your choice dated between today and the draw date and you’re in . I think I’ll do the draw Monday May 17th after 8pm EDT. (I’ll ship it to you free whenever you may be)
There are so many people in need all over the world and here at home too.
The piece is tiny , 6x6 inches. I sell these pieces as part of my art for groceries series. It’s a colour study for the forest interior pieces I’ve been working on (All sales I make via Instagram, Facebook and my website I continue to donate 10% of towards mental health charities)
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These pieces remind me of the phases of a day and the light playing through a forest . Interesting and surprising for me , combinations of colour. Each of these ‘stands’ are 48x24” .
It’s so nice to see the sun again. The combination of grey , wet skies and cool weather had my energy flagging.
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Details of something new. Are there ramps here? Maybe!
A friend was tramping through the woods recently and collected and then ate some ramps (wild garlic). That leads me tangentially to the onions / garlic/ leeks and mint I’ve been sowing at my garden as a ‘stink barrier’. I’m hoping the vermin at my plot will share more than some years. Back I head to the battlefield (garden) now .
Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms ! ❤️
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Here it is finished. 40x60” .
The buds on the trees outside are fabulous. More on this later .
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Monday chaos. Working on a 40x60” forest interior piece .
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Today I post this 18x18” home grown still life with shadows. It’s ‘a red letter day’ or a case of a ‘blind squirrel finding a nut’ day. It’s a day when I did the entire daily crossword myself . It happens a few times a year .
It’s a daily ritual that began a bunch years ago. My mom and I get the same newspaper delivered to our respective homes , work the puzzle and try to figure out where we’re stuck over the phone sometime in the afternoon.
Aside from that , I do like this painting and the crazy shadows.
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A forest 🌳 stand. Different day , different palate. Been fun exploring the relationships between colours
48x24”
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Playing around in the studio, setting up some vignettes while having a tea break. The piece is a tropical dream , it’s 30x30 “ , drawn from one of my walks on one of the local beaches when the weather isn’t so warm anywhere but in my imagination.
Coincidentally, I’m drinking a Japanese tea. For some reason, some of the marks in this piece have a tinge of that influence.
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Continuing to work up a body of forest stands . 24x48 “
I took a photo of the painting in progress yesterday with my package of mixed onions I’d ordered as part of my ever changing attempts at vermin deterrence at my allotment garden. The shots of pink are a direct response to that photo.
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This piece went to its new home today. Yay!
I’m very grateful to have ongoing support from my collectors because as always , my next piece is my ‘best’ piece . Let’s see what tomorrow will bring. I’m looking forward to sunnier days. Weather wise and pandemic wise .
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Another one of these ‘stands’ I’ve been working on . Playing with colours. 48x24” this one’s off to @diannawittegallery soon .
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Here’s a grouping of some of my ‘art for groceries’ paintings. I started working on these tiny pieces at the beginning of the pandemic. 6x6” and 6x8” as pictured here.
It’s been an evolution. I started them as a way to keep making art when the world was crazy . They became a way for me to experiment on a scale I was unfamiliar with (so tiny) and to make affordable work. I’ve been pleased with the progressions.
These pieces are $ 185. Each for the 6x6” and $225. Each for the 6x8” including shipping within Canada and hst. (Extra shipping cost elsewhere) 10% of any sales I make through my website or Instagram, I’m donating to mental health charities. The pieces are available on my website.
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Work in progress, 48”x24 . I think it’s going well. 🤞
For some reason Lou reed is the soundtrack of the day. It’s rare there’s one so it was worth mentioning.
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Here’s a piece I just reworked a little bit . It’s from 2019 but I added more volume of paint and enhanced the contrast. I think it’s evoking that time of day when the shadows heighten or reveal what’s hidden . Not certain whether it’s morning or evening, I guess that’ll be up to the eye of the viewer.
Side note I was going to post it yesterday but had a technology free interlude . (I forgot my phone at home)
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12x12” with a detail. I’m liking the texture and colours.
Bigger pieces underway in that awkward teenager phase, finding their way , exploring paths that may end in disaster.
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Out of chaos comes ... an intervention. Lol , I need to be able to walk around. It’s an endless process of creating disasters and creating order.
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A little 6x8” piece generated from my kayak trips out into Toronto harbour last summer . Surprisingly, I’ve been enjoying painting these tiny pieces, something that’s entirely a product of this pandemic. I’ll be putting it on my website tomorrow. It’s $225. Including hst and shipping in Canada . I’m also continuing to donate 10% of all sales through my website towards mental health charities. (SOLD)
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Monday variations. Riffing on an idea. It happens. In every art form I know. Other avenues too I think .
These still life’s are created from things I’ve grown down at my allotment garden . Looking forward to seeing what grows this year . Can’t wait !
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Happy rainy Friday! We need the rain , yay! The trees and plants are having a happy dance .
24x12 small stand-pink
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Under construction or a work in
progress. You pick. 18x18”
I was listening to the Lavar button reads podcast . ‘The killer of kings’ by Anjali Sachdeva . Great story! It led me off on a tangent about Milton and all sorts of directions I was ignorant about . I love that good art can excite your imagination and intellect!
Back at it. Where will your imagination take you today ? Mine racing somewhere.
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