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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

You know that feeling when you have reached the end of both Netflix AND the internet? Maybe you have had gravy with stuffing for breakfast chased with cranberry ginger ale and 7 lindor chocolate balls? Perhaps you had been wearing the same touque for 2 days without taking it off once and every inch of…

Hello From Sun Peaks on New Year’s Eve Day! More fresh snow. I am not tired of it yet but I have opted out of chasing the first tracks with Hubby this morning in order to write this entry and sketch my new composition on the canvas I prepared yesterday. This sense of “new beginnings”…

Buddhists regard the water lily as a symbol of enlightenment – something beautiful emerging from the primorial mud. If I only paint one painting per season (and it seems I do), this is a representative subject for the past summer. Being an information hound with anxious tendencies it is far too easy for me to…

Hello, One of the nice things about this little blog is that over the years it has become a journal of sorts for what we are up to, where we are, and, mostly, the seasons (in a literal and broader, figurative sense). Along with the few words I write are the paintings – both good…

Hello all! Greetings in this, our sixth week of social distancing – or whatever you want to call it. I call it boring but that is more about my state of mind than anything else. All considered, we are pretty fortunate up here. We have lots of space to move around. Sure, we are still…

Hello friends, Weird times, huh? When I finished this painting about a month ago Corona virus was still something vaguely threatening that was happening on the other side of the world. I don’t know about you, but I sure wasn’t giving it much thought. At that time I was pretty involved with helping host our…

Hello all, It is a whole month away but I have finished this years’ donation to the 12th Annual Sotheby’s Benefit Art Auction! This is really something special considering that each of the two previous years saw me panicking to get something in on time – real 11th hour efforts. I hate feeling rushed with…