We are always in the process of becoming. Nothing is truly static, ever, including paintings, which are generally pretty still. Yet even a painting is forever in one moment of its existence, and what a delight it is to be a part of that. ❤️ “The Shieldmaiden”, oil, 8”x8”, priv coll,Almonte,Ontario.

And sold!! 🔴 “The Shed”, oil on panel, 40”x30”, private collection. Keyholes of light in the darkness are like second paintings contained within them. “Fishing Stage, Fogo Island”, oil on panel, 40”x30”, private collection. 🔴

“Come away little light Come away to the darkness In the shade of the night we’ll come looking for you Come away little light Come away to the darkness To the ones appointed to see it through” ~Glen Hansard, ‘Come Away To The Water’ “The Wall”, oil on panel, 60”x48”, private collection, Colorado.🩵

“Amy, Cobalt”, oil on panel, 24”x12”, is continuing to evolve. I’m having a lot of fun jumping into different blues and the recipe of hues that this dress contains peeps of Prussian, a wink of Phthalo, a soothing of French Ultramarine, a warmth of Manganese and of course, Cobalt:)

The moment you fill your lungs and are lifted by water, feeling your toes leave the ground of wherever you happen to be and your limbs arabesque upward..that is flying. “The Virago”, oil on panel, 40”x60”, private collection, Florida, USA.

There are few things cooler than having your art your be on a cover of a fellow artist’s creations.🩵 Thank you to Sam Peralta, Rebecca Pert and the publishers involved in selecting my work for these covers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry!

When your work returns to you it’s the most amazing reunion. I’m so happy to have “Fregatten Jylland”, oil, 30”x30”, back in our lives again! This is my father’s model ship he was building when he passed away. I like to think painting it was a way to help him finish it. ❤️

Artists are all chasers of light. “Through a glass lightly”, oil on panel, 12”x24”, private collection. 🔴

Currently in progress! “Amy, Cobalt”, oil on panel, 24”x12”. I’m trying to play more with constrained cropping in compositional planning. I like when the parameters of the canvas become a voice in the narration.

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~Alan Watts “The Chameleon”, oil on panel, 30”x30”, private collection, Malibu, CA. 🔴

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” ~Isak Dinesen. 🌊🩵🌊 “Looking down to the Nicholsons’, 5:30am”, oil on panel, 36”x48”, available via Abbozzo Gallery. www.abbozzogallery.com/art/5668925

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦❤️ What a treat to spend some of it with my bestie Wyll in Victoria, BC!Plus a serendipitous coffee table book which inspires! “Kensington Palette”, oil on panel, 14”x11”, private collection.🔴

Tomorrow a reunion with magical being and friend of a lifetime Wyll. Here’s a favourite painting of her from awhile back.Wishing you a heart-filled day!❤️ “Wyll, Madison Avenue”, oil on panel, 11”x14”, private collection. 🔴

Hopes, dreams, realities, focus, lack of focus, meditation, mediation; all of these moments can be found on one’s palette. And sold! “Spring Journal”, oil on panel, 8”x6”, private collection.🔴

“Felicia, Liminal”, and “Filigree”, both oil on panel, have a new forever home! In fact you can see 2 other paintings of mine in these photos: The “Berrypicker, Greenspond” & “Danielle, Afloat”:) I’m so honoured to have these paintings now be a part of this wonderful family’s collection! 🩷

“The whole answer is there on the canvas.” ~Edward Hopper “Woman in shower”, oil on canvas, 40”x30”, private collection. 🔴

New painting complete! “L5-S1”, oil on panel, 9”x12”, available. This painting touches on the experience of having decompression and fusion spinal surgery a few years ago. 🩵

MAKE ME A BED IN THE CROOK OF YOUR ARM I’LL PROTECT YOU FROM SORROW, WORRY OR HARM YOU CAN LAY DOWN YOUR HEAD WITHOUT CARE; I SEE IN THE DARK “Messages in Bottles”, both oil, both 6”x6”, & “Sasha, Sun”,both in private collections.🔴🐾

I’m smitten with where friends have hung this poster from my first solo exhibition back in 2007 at @abbozzogallery! Those barn doors are yummy & I’m so happy that this special moment is in their lives. Thank you both for sharing this!🩵 “Laura, Stool”, oil,48”x36”, private collection, Ontario.

Annnd finished! “Want-sabi”, oil on board, 24”x12”, and detail. And a pic of the artist in situ :)

“Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”~Margaret Atwood “What the water gave me”, oil on panel. 36”x48”, private collection, Whitehorse, Yukon. 🔴

I seek out painting subjects which are sometimes indirect; where a person was, the sun on the floor of a room recently occupied, things wrapped in memory. I think at the end of the day I like painting the presence found in absence. “Where you lay waiting”, oil, 30”x40”, priv coll. 🔴

“The Artist and her Familiar”, oil on panel, 6”x6”, has a beautiful new home! Such wonderful memories behind this painting, and I’m so glad it has traveled from one family of caring collectors to another. 🥲🩵🥰

“Wabi-sabi” continues to develop. Oil on panel, 24”x12”. 🩵

The glorious Olivia William’s Nurse Ratched was a staggering performance, dovetailing alongside an incredible cast of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ at @oldvictheatre.bsky.social What a joy to catch this production before its finale this Saturday. ❤️

“Let’s embrace the clarity of uncertainty and go on this adventure together.” 🩵 ~Jason Constantine “The Searcher”, oil on panel, 60”x40”, private collection, Oakville, Ontario. 🔴

Here’s another new painting on the go! 💚🌱 “L5-S1”, oil, 9”x12”, in progress. Happy belated Mother’s Day as well. She’s the heroine of my heart.❤️

New painting in progress! It’s the second time I’ve painted this gate. I just love its luminous, cracked colour:) “Wabi-sabi”, oil on board, 24”x12”, in progress.

There are certain people you can sit quietly with for hours. Wyll & I used to go to one another’s houses in high school & just sit & read books side by side. We’re both only children, and I think onlies are often particularly sensitive to others nearby. “Wyll, wisdom”, oil, 11”x14”, priv coll.

“We don’t love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.”-Rainer Maria Rilke “The Wedding Dress”, oil on canvas, 40”x30”, private collection. 🔴