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Seven years of change
At the Harrington Brown Gallery in Memphis, TN, March 2011 Seven years ago, in 2011, I had an exhibition at the Harrington Brown Gallery...
May 20, 20182 min read


The Black & White
My first house in Nova Scotia was in a small fishing community. I bought an old house and renovated it. I had a big studio and two...
Jan 22, 20182 min read


Ask Me Anything
As a New Year gift, CBC had three of their top radio hosts be the ones to be asked questions. These hosts, and most of the broadcasters...
Jan 3, 20182 min read


Color for what
A couple of days ago a friend asked, via text, what my favorite color scheme is. She is poling people and wouldn’t tell me why. So I’m...
Dec 9, 20171 min read


Devotion
Romeo, my pup, likes to invent games for himself. This afternoon, after we had been playing fetch for a while, he took his ball and...
Dec 2, 20171 min read


Is It Luck?
I certainly feel lucky when I look around me, look at my life as it unfolds its daily trek to the unknown. I have a beautiful house on a...
Nov 11, 20172 min read


Surprise!
Some days seem to have a surprise built in somehow. A friend recently mentioned how there are days when he wakes up in the morning but...
Sep 16, 20171 min read


What he had to say
I like the rawness of the beginning process, but it is not enough. Nevertheless, I still long for it as I continue.But if I were to stop...
Aug 25, 20171 min read


Handsome
At ten months, Romeo is a beauty. My opinion! #Animals #Dogs #Image
Mar 11, 20171 min read


Beauty
One of my constant obsessions has been thinking about what makes something beautiful. People tell me my dog is beautiful. He’s just a...
Mar 9, 20172 min read


Under the bed
Impossible Possibilities, no.9; 42″ x 42″ Recently I was visiting a friend who has a couple of my paintings in his living room. As we sat...
Feb 6, 20171 min read


Starting
After a long hiatus from painting due to health issues, I am finally back at work in my studio. For the first time since I started many...
Jan 11, 20171 min read


Dog-Time
I live in a neighborhood where almost every house has a dog or two, all ages. I can think of five pups under two years just within a...
Oct 8, 20161 min read


Chaos
There has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....
Sep 20, 20161 min read


Tidbites
You’ve heard of sound bites, right. Tidbits of sound. Well, I’m into painting bites. Tidbits of time to paint. It’s working though, doing...
Aug 1, 20161 min read


Happiness is . . .
Romeo and I went to Martinique Beach yesterday. Five kilometers of crescent white sand beach. It was his first visit to the ocean. He...
Aug 1, 20161 min read


Here’s Romeo!
He’s an eight week old Portuguese Water Dog. I brought him back home last night after two days of travel to the other end of Cape Breton...
Jul 12, 20162 min read


The necessity of art
Yesterday morning, Steve Reich was talking about his music on CBC radio program q.  One powerful comment he made, loosely quoted, was...
Apr 15, 20161 min read


April in Nova Scotia
I woke up to this! The weather from Ottawa followed me home. I don’t mind, I guess. It’s Sunday and I don’t have to do anything, not even...
Apr 10, 20161 min read


April in Ottawa!
Bad joke! Up until today, the weather was cold but clear. I’ve had enough snow for a few years now. Not that I have much to say on the...
Apr 6, 20161 min read
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