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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...

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....

(“Because of the Duck, no. 13″; 12″ x 12”; oil & collage on canvas) Because of the puppy and the fact that I will be teaching in Baddeck,...

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...

Romeo and I went to Martinique Beach yesterday. Five kilometers of crescent white sand beach. It was his first visit to the ocean. He...

Three of my paintings have recently traveled to beautiful Watch Hill, RI. On the walls now at the Lily Pad Gallery, they represent a new...

I took Romeo to the other lake yesterday afternoon. This lake stays very shallow for quite a ways out so it is a wonderful playground for...

The Peggy’s Cove Area Festival of the Arts Studio Tour is on for the next three days. Studio Tour invitation. It’s from 10 am to 5 pm. My...

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...

Lately, I’ve been struggling with blue. Again. I have several blue paintings on the go and each of them seems to have a different problem...

I love a challenge. Keeps me on my toes. Of course, painting is that, always. As well, I’ve been having a great time lately teaching....

Yesterday, when painting, I had a major insight about how to work with the color field. I have been working on some blue paintings, not...

I’ve often heard it is hard to work when you have an exhibit on. I’ve not experienced that before now. Usually when I have work up in a...

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...

On April 30, Jacinte Armstrong, dancer, Sageev Oore, composer and pianist and Nick Halley, percussion, danced and made music in dialogue...

Novels are usually about people’s lives. They take me into what other people experiences, feel, how they think and solve problems. When I...

Last Sunday I gave my “Artist’s Talk” at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. It went well, lots of good questions. Actually, I opened it...