More Collage
More Collage 2020 is a series of 8” x 10” Mixed Media works on Canvas. They never were intended for sale, but have been part of the Quesnel Art Gallery Working Alone show in July 2020.
life cycles
one photo four bentwood chairs
positive negative plate print
positive negative
woman with two prints
woman with lilies
woman with 3 prints
woman and the weaver and time
Paper Dolls
This series was done in response to Covid 19, to spending more time alone, and how our lives have changed in 2020. They were all done very quickly using mixed media clippings from my sketch books and clip files on a stack of irregularly cut hardboard I found in a cupboard. They were great fun to do, but were never meant for framing and are thus not for sale.
PAPER DOLLS – 1. Edge
PAPER DOLLS – 2. Bend Don’t Break
PAPER DOLLS – 3. Stay Home Stay Safe
PAPER DOLLS – 4. Social Distancing
PAPER DOLLS – 5. Mourning
PAPER DOLLS – 6. Death Dance_1
PAPER DOLLS – 6. Death Dance
PAPER DOLLS – 7. Working Together
PAPER DOLLS – 8. Alone Together
Joy
In 2019 The Thursday Painters had a show called Joy and these three paintings were my contribution.
Gemini Joys 2019
Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36” $1200.00 Gemini Joys Multiply in the Spring The Twin Sisters Bask in the Soft Spring Morning Apple Blossoms scent the soft Sunshine Flowers spring up in a bright carpet Returning Bluebirds Twitter and Flutter May is Here at Last
Home Joys
Acrylic on Canvas 18” x 36” $500.00 Home Joys are the best Joys. A White Fur Baby curled up tight On a Soft Throw on A Blue Leather Squishy Sofa with Lots of Purple Pillows A Favorite Tiled Table with Sculptures fashioned by a Friend Fresh Flowers always These are always found in mine
The Joy of Silence
Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 48” $1500.00 Silence is often an unappreciated Joy Here amongst the quiet trees Surrounded by the loudest blues and golden orange The Silence Seeker Sits Not even the hidden Loon cries out Peace soothes her Soul
Thank A Tree
Cariboo Carbon Cache
*Cariboo Carbon Cache* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 36w x 48h Price – $750
Leaves Fall Decades Fly
*Leaves Fall Decades Fly* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 30w x 40h Price – $750
Life in Pink and Blue
*Life in Pink and Blue* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 30w x 40h Price – $750
Elusive
*Elusive* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 24w x 48h Price – $750
Life is Change
*Life is Change* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 36w x 48h Price – $950
Clinging Fast Slipping Free
*Clinging Fast Slipping Free* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 24w x 48h Price – $750
Thank a Tree
*Thank a Tree* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 24w x 48h Price – $750
Celebration of Spring
*Celebration of Spring* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 24w x 48h Price – $750
Tree Spirit
*Tree Spirit* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 48h Price – $1500
Leaves in the Wind
Golden Leaves
*Golden Leaves* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 48w x 36h Price – $1250
Autumn on the River
*Autumn on the River* Acrylic on Canvas 48w x 36h Price – $1250
The Pink Road
*The Pink Road* Acrylic on Canvas48w x 36hPrice – $1250
Tree on the Fraser
*Tree on the Fraser* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas48w x 36hPrice – $1250
Jumping Off Point
*Jumping Off Point* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 36w x 36h Price – $950
Red Yellow and Blue
*Red Yellow and Blue* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 36h Price – $950
Purple Mountains
*Purple Mountains* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 36h Price – $950
Early Morning
*Early Morning* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 36h Price – $950
Wind
*Wind* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 36h Price – $950
Requiem
*Requiem* Acrylic on Canvas 60w x 48h Price – $1800
Network
*Network* Acrylic on Canvas 48w x 48h Price – $1500
Wings
*Wings* Acrylic on Canvas 72w x 36h Price – $1800
Rough Water
*Rough Water* Acrylic on Canvas 36w x 48h Price – $1500
Tall Tree
*Tall Tree* Acrylic on Canvas 24w x 48h Price – $400
Haida Gwaii
Beachcombers
*Beachcombers* Acrylic on Canvas 60 “wide by 48” high Price – 1800.00
Eagles Everywhere
*Eagles Everywhere* Acrylic on Canvas 60 “wide by 48” high Price – 1800.00
Edges
*Edges* Acrylic on Canvas 60 “wide by 48” high Price – 1800.00
Rainforest
*Rainforest* Acrylic on Canvas 60 “wide by 36” high Price – 1800.00
Tow Hill
*Tow Hill* Acrylic on Canvas 60 “wide by 48” high- Sold
Woman as Tree Spirit
Spirits of the Forest is a series of ten acrylic mixed media collages on canvas, measuring twenty-four inches wide and forty-eight inches tall. Each one is an exploration of the variation of three elements: a tree trunk, a full length nude female figure, and one or more birds. The works are heavily textured through the use of handmade paper, shapes cut from cotton cloth, and layers built up of other fabrics, cheesecloth, and witches hair that grows on the trees outside my window. Spirits are known by many names. I have given each one of these ten a different one. Size 24” wide x 48” high Price $650.00 each.
Shade
Apparition
Sylph
Deva
Nymph
Phantom
Psyche
Totem
Jinni
Anima
Women
Female images constantly appear on my canvas. The women may be part of a narrative painting about women’s lives as in Shackled. Women may appear in the foliage, emerge from the abstract, populate a fantasy, become a pattern element, but they are unmistakably female.
Colour in Winter
48″x36″ $500.00
Dreaming the Lily
24″x36″ $400.00
Feminine Frippery
36″x36″ $450.00
Layers of Life1
36″x48″ $650.00
Layers of Life 2
36″x48″ $650.00
Layers
36″x48″ $650.00
Maidens and Moonsnails
24″x30″ $400.00
Seven Sisters
36″x48″ $950.00
Sange-froid
48″x36″ $750.00
Shackled
36″x36″ $500.00
Solidarity
60″x48″ $1500.00
Sugar and Spice
60″x48″ $1500.00
Three
48″x36″ $750.00
Flower Forms
It is during the long white winter that I fill my house with fresh flowers that find their way on to my canvases. Sometimes they actually look like flowers, but often it is just a way of playing with colour.
A Bulb Awakened
16×16 $200.00
A Spring Bouquet
20×24 $350.00
A Tulip Dream
18×24 $350.00
Black Vase
18×24 $350.00
Five Orange Lilies
24×24 $450.00
Orange and Pink
18×24 $250.00
Overblown
24×24 $450.00
Three in a Vase
18×24 $350.00
Tulip Time
18×24 $350.00
Landscapes
The Cariboo landscape is before my eyes and etched on my brain. Whether I am painting outdoors, from my window, or in my studio, the lines and light and colours of the Cariboo, the earth and waters and sky of the Cariboo, appear in acrylics upon my canvas. But wherever I travel I see new images that find their way into new paintings. Sometimes the location is recognizable, but often new elements just are woven into the imaginary landscapes in my mind.
Cliffs in Sunshine
Acrylic on Canvas 18” x 24” Price 500.00
Wings to the West
Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 72” Price 1500.00
Glimpse into the Past – Day
Acrylic on Canvas 18” x 24” Price 400.00
Glimpse into the Past – Night
Acrylic on Canvas 18” x 24” Price 400.00
Three Front and Centre
Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 40” Price 1200.00
Yellow Field
Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36” Price 900.00
Arms Entwined
36×36 $1250.00
Blue Lake
30×30 $650.00
Bright Cariboo Day
36×48 $950.00
Green Mountain
48×72 $2000.00
Golden Morning
30×36 $750.00
Enchanted
36×36 $950.00
Cariboo Afternoon
36×48 $1250.00
Guardians
36×48 $1250.00
Naramata Feeling
24×30 $500.00
Wings in a Pink Sky
48×60 $1800.00
Pink Beach
36×48 $1500.00
Purple Rocks
36×36 $950.00
Red Rock
36×48 $1500.00
Sculptured Cliffs
30×30 $750.00
Snowy Peaks
24×30 $500.00
The Shadow Falls
48×48 $1800.00
Twilight
48×36 $1500.00
Leaves Fall Decades Fly
*Leaves Fall Decades Fly* Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas 30w x 40h Price – $750
Seated Women
Seated is a series of ten square format acrylic on canvas images that continue the exploration of saturated colour, and introduces text for the first time. All figures are seated on versions of the same ornate chair. All explore the lives of women, their relationships to men and to each other, and the many emotions and changes they experience as they live their lives from birth to old age and approaching death. Some of these images are personal; some are portraits of real people; some are more symbolic. All evoke the pain and wonder of being female.
Siblings
36” x 36” $950
Survivor
36” x 36” $950
Spouses
36” x 36” $950
Selves
36” x 36” $950
Sisters
36” x 36” $950
Sibyls
36” x 36” $950
Serenity Senility
36” x 36” $950
Support
36” x 36” $950
Sprouts
36” x 36” $950
Security
36” x 36” $950
The Abstract View
For some time I have been working towards a more abstract image. These paintings emerged very quickly into colour and pattern, line and movement, to express the emotion of each piece. They are building on the work that came before, but will I hope, lead me in new directions.
Dance
36″x36″ $1200
New Directions
36″x36″ $1200
Sea Flower
36″x36″ $1200
Spring
24″x24″ $450.00
The Shadow Falls
48″x48″ $1500.00
Twilight
36″x48″ $1200.00
Untitled 1
18″x18″ $350.00
Untitled 2
18″x18″ $350.00
Woven
30″x30″ $650
People and Portraits
The human body is a great challenge to any painter. I watch people everywhere and they appear in starring and secondary roles, as themselves or simply as a pattern element. I photograph my friends and they appear in my paintings, sometimes as themselves, sometimes in disguise.
Birdman
24″x30″ $650
In the Shade
Modern Minerva
24″x30″ $750
Sculptor
12″x12″ $250
Lady on Red
18″x24″ $350
The Gathering
36″x36″ $950
Woman on a Green Band
36″x36″ $750
Sadie and Friend
24″x30″ SOLD
Birds of My World
My home on the side of the Fraser River is ideal for watching the daily life and annual migrations of many winged beings. There is always an eagle or two sitting in the snag beyond my deck. I speak to them daily as I pass beneath them and their songs echo up and down the valley during all the seasons of the year. Ravens are with me winter and summer: the sound of their wings overhead, their raucous calls of greeting, the sight and sound of their wild quarrels over a kill. White river gulls wing up and down the river morning and night all summer. The September song of the sandhill cranes is one of my favorite sounds. A flock of geese or swans or pelicans occasionally settles on the sandbar to rest from the long flight north. I wait anxiously for the he first flash of a bluebird, or another sighting of red and yellow tanagers. The return of the hummingbirds is reason for major celebration. Is it any wonder that they find their way into my work?
Firebird
48″x72″ NFS
September Song
48″x72″ $3000
West Wind
NFS
Funeral Feast
36″x36″ $750
Sheltering Wings
36″x36″ NFS
The Rave
NFS
Artist’s Collection
In the work of many painters there are key pieces that mark a new discovery, a change in direction, the successful interpretation of an idea. Some or all of these have a special value to the artist; selections they are happy to retain in their own collection. These are some of mine, but these too are always for sale.
Arteries
36” x 36” – $750.00
Enchanted Garden
24” x 48” – $950.00
Golden Sands
36” x 36” – $950.00
Green and Gold
36” x 36” – $950
Picnic In an Empty Land
36” x 36” – $950
Silver Circles
36” x 36” – $750.00
Winter Sunshine
36” x 36” – 950.00