I'm Back!! New Art Work April 2020

So much has transpired since I last posted 4 years ago.  I now show my paintings with a cooperative gallery, Arts Pacific, on Bowen Island. It's been a long period of artistic growth, and a wonderful period of exploration in many mediums. I think the best thing to do is post a couple of pieces a day that I have produced in the last few months... as well as the odd posting of a piece that I may have created as far back as a year ago.  The rest of the work over the last year has sold... Yippee!

I'm going to make an attempt to write about the processes involved in creating the pieces I feature in this Blog.. or some other insight I may have gained in my artistic practice that  feel is relevant for the time being. In other words, I'm going to start writing again as well as painting. There! I've said it. Now I just have to do it.

'Ethereal'

My newest work from this last weekend.  Oil pastel on salvaged wood plank. 9' X 20"

This was a battle from the start.... layering oil pastel on top of wood stain and trying to let the wood grain show through without dominating the piece.  Scraped back many times and began again.  Final after about 4 hours it begin to appear.. Sometimes the art has a stronger will than the artist... you go where the work takes you, not the other way around.  But the journey is exciting (and exhausting) and if it results in something you never expected but are satisfied with... well, that's success.