Categories: Art

• First solo (actually duo) Show – the dynamic Durham duo…

  We were able to get 28 paintings up on the two walls where you enter into the Town Hall and the two receptionists were very pleased with their view for the next few months. We had passersby all day oohing and ahhhing and gasps of breath as they walked by and one of the receptionists said she has never seen a show like this one and that it seems to be seriously grabbing people’s attention and they are instantly stopping to look.

• Fabulous quote that sums it all up!

  “Art is our one true global language. It know no nation, it favors no race, and

• Perspectives Art Show and Opening of The Conference Place Art Gallery

  Great Event opening last Saturday at The Conference Place at Whitby Mental Health! Great facility, great connection to bring art into a healing atmosphere. The speaker David Aurandt that opened the event is a wonderful speaker and advocate of the Arts, I have heard

• The Solitary Nature of Artists

  It seems to me that there is an underlying solitary nature that is integral, and part of the heart of an artist. There is a separateness, perhaps that of observation, but also the ability to appreciate and almost become part of your surroundings,

• I have been Considering the Lilies

  …so I sent my husband out on a mission one night…I said “can you bring me home some lilies, a flat screen tv, and some ice cream…” It worked! He came home with all three and only had about 15 min. to find a tv (I guess he was wanting a new tv) but the lilies were not the same colour as the last ones…

• Thinking about art and artists and art shows. Sounds like the AAA…

  If I could, I would forever paint and virtually never come out of hiding except to come up for breaths of inspiration from long nature walks, and a good chai tea latte or something…even a movie perhaps.

• 2009 Begins

  Well, the New Year is underway, and I am pulling pieces together with my new series Transformation & Change, and am trying to get it out showing somewhere in the near future.  I have been painting for months and didn’t realize the series had enlarged to 24 pieces to date.  I am excited about a show in Oct-Dec 2009 that my daughter and I are doing together.  We are currently doing some pieces together to tie our two streams together.  [...]

• Students Surpass the Teacher…very cool

  It is very exciting to see the emerging art and expression of the next generation as 3 of my students have won places in the annual Juried Exhibition of the PineRidge Arts Council at the McLean Community Center in Ajax this week.  All three will have at least one piece in the show, one of them won Best in Show for Student Category as well as a Merit Award!  I have a piece in the show also.  I am so proud [...]

• Many kinds of Creativity

  when I lifted the lid, it was full of her treasures…pages and pages of drawings she had done for me, a drawing we had done together, a canvas she did an abstract painting on, a poem, and a story. Creativity doesn’t get any better than that.

• Next generation

  I am so excited to be dropping off not only my submissions, but submission for two of my stellar students in a local juried exhibition.  Teenagers don’t always respond the way you think they will, and one did not seem too excited until the last set of 4 paintings she did were all framed and sitting in front of her.  She suddenly seemed very excited about them and struggled to choose her two entries, and then decided her favourite one [...]