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- Jul 23, 2020
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What is it all about anyway
How Art Began”, written and produced by the British sculptor Antony Gormley. Gormley goes deep into ancient caves to see the drawings on...
- Nov 7, 2018
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Let’s Talk (about what)
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...
- Oct 2, 2018
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Aftermath
Sometimes, Someone, Something, Somewhere, No 4. Curious about how my exhibit at the Secord was received, I asked Phil, the owner, about...
- Jul 9, 2018
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Open Studio
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...
- Dec 2, 2017
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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...
- Nov 29, 2017
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Infinite
“Comparing Mythologies, no.8″; oil & collage on canvas; 8″ x 8” Imagination is the door to infinity. Open it up and anything can happen....
- Sep 16, 2017
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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 8, 2017
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“A beautiful trip”
Yesterday (or maybe the day before, all days running into each other recently) I heard an awesome interview on q (CBC radio arts program)...
- Jul 24, 2017
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Alone with all of us
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...
- Jul 22, 2017
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Where
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...
- Jun 4, 2017
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Constructing composition
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...
- Apr 4, 2017
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Suppose We Do
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...
- Mar 9, 2017
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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...
- Jan 14, 2017
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Who knew
“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...
- Sep 29, 2016
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What’s the story
Here I am trying to explain the unexplainable. Not easy but interesting to try. Abstract art is non-verbal communication, not about...
- Sep 25, 2016
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Beautiful Baddeck
Came home Tuesday from a week in beautiful Baddeck, Cape Breton. I was teaching a four-day workshop on abstract painting. There were...
- Sep 20, 2016
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Chaos
There has been so much talk lately about minimalism, paring down, purging, simplifying. I too bought a book on decluttering, organizing....
- Aug 14, 2016
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Glory
According to Proust, “Artists are people who strip habit away and return life to its deserved glory.” I’ll go along with that! Definitely...
- Aug 1, 2016
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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...
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