Hello all, Happy winter! I don’t feel like writing much at this point, but will come back in the next day or two for a bit of an update and to say more about this one. Because it was such an absolute beast to paint I am eager to just wrap it up by putting…
new painting: Spring Torrent – Resort Creek
Hello all, I hope you are having a fantastic summer. I am but I also have to admit that I am over the heat, mugginess and never-ending pall of wildfire smoke. Luckily the smoke has been pretty minor this summer. All the same, I look forward to cool air and clear skies. This new painting…
new painting – Morning Commute on Gentle Giant
Hello, hello! Its a fun fact that our town has the only ski-in, ski-out elementary school in North America (maybe the world)! It is super cool and as a parent whose children attended school there I can attest it makes for happy kids. Physical education classes in the winter mostly mean skiing. Lunchtimes were a…
new painting – Early Snow in Whitecroft Meadow
Hello Everyone and happy hike/bike season! Summer season starts in the resort this weekend and, in typical fashion, I am offering up something new but a few seasons behind (thematically, that is). Fine by me though. All be told, I am not a huge fan of summer. We moved up here in part to escape…
new painting – Bloom on the Saddleback Trail
This past summer there was a massive hailstorm that covered the area in a thick layer of white – some of it lasting for a few days. The carefully tended gardens of the village and wildflowers alike were decimated. Oh well, that’s nature – but still a bit of a bummer. So when we heard…
new painting – September Sunday near Locals Beach
Hello, As we head into another September here is a painting featuring a memory from last September. The oldest girl and I had made an emergency visit to the vet in town as our brown dummy had eaten who-knows-what and was sick as a, well, dog. On the way back the poor boy had the…
new painting – Blustery Day on Top of Tod
Hello! Long time no post. I have been working on this large canvas for a long time – since the end of November to be exact. Well, to say “working on it” is a bit misleading. I have been dabbing a bit here and there. Taking my time. Engrossed in other stuff. Not always the…
New Painting – Spring Thaw in the East Village
Happy start-of-the-season to you all! The 2022 Ski season here in Sun Peaks has started out with a respectable amount of snow and a relative feeling of normalcy (as in, pre-Covid business-as-usual) that I think everyone around here is thankful for. Late last winter I sold a canvas that had been hanging in our entrance…
New Painting – Autumn Under the Sunburf Canopy
Hello all, New painting time! This scene is from one of the little forest glades off the Sunburf hike/bike trail. I love these close, profuse clearings under the pine canopy – especially in fall because they yeild up much more autumny colour than above. As a painter who sticks to a pretty earlthy palette and…
New Painting – Filtered Sunlight in Sunburf Glade
I am trying hard to think of something to write about this painting – but summer seems just so long ago. It must have been nice in there for me to make the effort to stop and take a photo … shady and so green, but with those warm spots of light pouring in. Increasingly…
new painting – Wickaninnish Beach
Hi there, September 17 here and it is snowing out my window. Its too early. TOO EARLY. I am typing here with my “I love fall most of all” mug, the fire on and my woolies, feeling a toss-up between cozy seasonal bliss and resentment that winter is trying to encroach on my favourite season….
new painting – Whitecroft Falls in the New Year
It is the end of March and a warm, sunny spring day. Just joking. Its snowing. The hill closes after this weekend – which means the onset of MUD SEASON. Mud season is the Sun Peaks substitute of what others call “Spring.” It is unpredictable, often nasty, and interminable. If we are good, we may…
The Tipsy Pine 