Corvids - Crows, Ravens and Relations

Struttin'

mixed water-based media

8 x 8 inches

I have work in a show in the Art Gallery of St. Albert (formerly Profiles) from February 3 to April 2. The show is called "The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep" and there are 4 other artists participating - Susan Casault, Judith Martin, Arlene Wasylynchuck and Lesley Roy. Should be a good show - drop in if you are in the area!

Water - a return to Kyoquot Sound

Kyoquot Ripples - BC

21 x 60 in.

Oil on canvas

I had a great time painting this image - felt as if I was bobbing along in my kayak again. I worked from some reference images I took in Kyoquot Sound two summers ago. Makes me want to get out the paddle again soon!!!

New Photos... finally!

Drift

Oil on canvas

51 x 137 cm / 20 x 54 in.

Finally - it warmed up enough to get some photos taken outdoors - they way I prefer to photograph my work. Given our recent stretch of cold, I thought I would post a wintery image of a drift that I just completed. The roadsides offer such a sculpture gallery after there has been a bit of snow and wind!

A New Year - and more painting...

I have been in the studio and painting - but I put off photographing the work (which I do outdoors) until the temperature sank into numbers starting with -2... so no photos to post.

But, happily, I do want to announce that my book is doing very well! It has been on the local non-fiction best-seller list almost all fall, and this week it is standing in No. 1 position! So I am delighted with how that is going!

And I will post some paintings soon - when the weather starts to cooperate, and I can take the work outside and not suffer frostbite!

My Book is Out!!!

WEST ON ONE

(by me!)

is now available!!!

It can be ordered at www.pipestonepress.ca/westonone

or purchased at independent booksellers along the Bow Corridor

(list of merchants also on web site)

Please join us for the official BOOK LAUNCH

on Thursday, Sept 30, 7:30 pm

at Pages in Kensington

1135 Kensington Road

Calgary, AB

Hope you can make it - should be a fun party!

And yet more water...

Brittany Coast III - France

39 x 28 in.

oil on canvas
I seem to be revisiting old themes a lot - this is another from a series of photo references I took off the Point du Raz on the western tip of Brittany a number of years ago. I love the dual layers of the ocean bottom and the swirls of light reflected on the water surface - a challenging subject!!!

More Water...

Reflection: Burmis Lake, AB

Oil on canvas

36 x 36 in.

This painting came from the weekend I spent in the Crowsnest Pass area last spring, at a painting excursion organized by the Alberta Society of Artists. One day we visited this small lake, which had gorgeous shifting reflections in it. I took lots of reference photos and did a few quick colour sketches in paint. This is the first large painting to come out of the ideas I brought home with me.