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How Art Began”, written and produced by the British sculptor Antony Gormley. Gormley goes deep into ancient caves to see the drawings on...

Let’s Talk, no. 2; oil & collage on canvas; 36″ x 112″ For weeks I’ve been trying to figure out what I am doing, want to do, with my...

Sometimes, Someone, Something, Somewhere, No 4. Curious about how my exhibit at the Secord was received, I asked Phil, the owner, about...

Peggy’s Cove Area Festival of the Arts. For one thing, I am grateful to have a good reason to clean up my studio! But mostly it is so...

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...

“Comparing Mythologies, no.8″; oil & collage on canvas; 8″ x 8” Imagination is the door to infinity. Open it up and anything can happen....

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...

Yesterday (or maybe the day before, all days running into each other recently) I heard an awesome interview on q (CBC radio arts program)...

Last weekend, July 14, 15, 16 that is, I was part of the Peggy’s Cove Festival of the Arts. That meant I had Open Studio Friday, Saturday...

When I was in NYC recently, my grandson, who is an extremely accomplished musician and composer, was asked if he worked with a plan in...

Last week when I was walking in the woods with a neighbor and our dogs, I mentioned that I had been awake part of the night planning the...

The last exhibit I had at the Orange Gallery, I called Coincidentally. The current one is Suppose We Do. These phrases are born from the...

One of my constant obsessions has been thinking about what makes something beautiful. People tell me my dog is beautiful. He’s just a...

“Who Knew, no. 3″; 36″ x 36”; oil & collage on canvas You know that feeling when you say, “Yes, That’s It!“ This morning, as I was about...

Here I am trying to explain the unexplainable. Not easy but interesting to try. Abstract art is non-verbal communication, not about...

Came home Tuesday from a week in beautiful Baddeck, Cape Breton. I was teaching a four-day workshop on abstract painting. There were...

There has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....

According to Proust, “Artists are people who strip habit away and return life to its deserved glory.” I’ll go along with that! Definitely...

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...