Next week marks the opening of my first exhibition opportunity for 2024. “The Colour Connection” is a juried group show, featuring the work of Vancouver-area artists Alini Garcia, Roman Rozumnyj, Deb Chaney and myself. It runs from February 7th through March 3rd at the Silk Purse Arts Centre in West Vancouver. While we were each […]
Our intention creates our reality 2023 was all about saying ‘yes’, in both my private studio practice and in how I shared my work publicly. I tried new ways of working, experimented with different materials and painted bigger and bolder than I ever have before. I explored curious colour palettes and different ways of making […]
“Every decision or non-decision shifts the Universe in a whole new direction.” For the past six months, I’ve been experimenting with different ways of starting a painting. What I’ve discovered is that, like a complex ecosystem, the paintings that result are surprisingly sensitive to initial conditions. Because I paint intuitively, engaging in a ‘call and […]
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see… We shape our homes and then our homes shape us. Have you ever fallen in love with a piece of art and thought “if only it were a different size” or “the colours are a bit dark” or “it would be more personal […]
There is a voice that doesn’t use words: listen! Rumi For me, painting is primarily an intuitive process. The colours I choose and the marks I make seem to come from somewhere deep inside. The less intentional I am when I’m creating, the more energetic and satisfying the experience is. (And hopefully the more appealing […]
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired by Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods […]
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a […]