May 20, 20182 minSeven years of changeAt the Harrington Brown Gallery in Memphis, TN, March 2011 Seven years ago, in 2011, I had an exhibition at the Harrington Brown Gallery...
Jan 22, 20182 minThe Black & WhiteMy 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 3, 20182 minAsk Me AnythingAs 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...
Dec 9, 20171 minColor for whatA 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 2, 20171 minDevotionRomeo, my pup, likes to invent games for himself. This afternoon, after we had been playing fetch for a while, he took his ball and...
Nov 11, 20172 minIs 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...
Sep 16, 20171 minSurprise!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...
Aug 25, 20171 minWhat he had to sayI 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...
Mar 9, 20172 minBeautyOne of my constant obsessions has been thinking about what makes something beautiful. People tell me my dog is beautiful. He’s just a...
Feb 6, 20171 minUnder the bedImpossible 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...
Jan 11, 20171 minStartingAfter 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...
Oct 8, 20161 minDog-TimeI 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...
Sep 20, 20161 minChaosThere has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....
Aug 1, 20161 minTidbitesYou’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 minHappiness 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...
Jul 12, 20162 minHere’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...
Apr 15, 20161 minThe necessity of artYesterday morning, Steve Reich was talking about his music on CBC radio program q. One powerful comment he made, loosely quoted, was...
Apr 10, 20161 minApril in Nova ScotiaI 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 7, 20161 minApril 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...