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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 25, 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


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 14, 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


How things work
There is a small room off the large gallery at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. We decided to put small paintings in the small room...
May 17, 20161 min read


What’s next
I’ve been obsessing a bit recently about the painting hanging over my piano now for about three years. I didn’t want to sell it for a...
Nov 28, 20141 min read


Direct Perception 2013
Back home after four exhilarating, exhausting and productive days as one of three teachers at the Direct Perception Workshop in...
Jun 10, 20132 min read


Direct perception for a day
Ashburn Golf Course in April, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Despite the snow and cold Friday night (after all, this is only April in...
Apr 15, 20132 min read
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