From Nova Scotia to London

2012 and beyond

2012-01-02T07:46:00.000-08:00

Another year! OK, it is time to get down to real work and focus. Ready, steady, go!

It will be a year of contrasts, more experimentation and exploring new possibilities.

Dark Side

2011-07-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

I am working on a new series of images inspired by microscopic medical photography from the Wellcome Trust collection. It is fun experimenting with colour and small sections of larger images that have no relation to medical science!

Crazy World

2011-07-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

As the world gets more and more unstable, so does the landscape in which we live. Here are some photographs from my neighbourhood.

New Work

2011-06-30T11:19:00.000-07:00

The year is moving at a great rate and I feel I have only started! Oh well, I will try to catch up but to celebrate Canada Day, here is a new work. Happy Canada Day.

Mystery Moon

2011-03-20T05:16:00.000-07:00

I don't have the most powerful camera but even if I did, I don't think I could have captured how big and bright the full moon was last night in London. This is my photo which captures the mystery over the Victorian rooftops.

Morley Gallery

2011-02-13T10:08:00.000-08:00

I am pleased to start 2011 with an etching at Morley Gallery. The exhibition is entitled MADE 2011 Printmaking & Bookbinding and is on until March 10, 2011.

Morley College is a great supporter of artists at whatever stage of their career. The tutors and facilities are wonderful. Long live further and adult education.

sneak preview of coming attractions

2010-11-20T08:49:00.000-08:00

I am working on a new series inspired by the landscape of North Cornwall.

I love the abstract design of the carboniferous sandstone cliffs worn down by the natural elements.

Will post more work soon.

more web presence!

2010-11-07T10:11:00.000-08:00

Please check out AXIS which is a great artist website that I am now part of. It is a contemporary online resource for artists.

AXIS

I am busy in the studio making my art so I hope to be able to post some soon.

Interview!

2010-09-19T06:44:00.000-07:00

DESPREGABLE fanzine, is a wonderful, hip Galician music and arts journal.
I am very happy to be featured in the fanzine so please check it out on their blog.

Widemouth Bay

2010-06-20T07:17:00.000-07:00

Widemouth Bay is located on the North Cornwall coast. What a joy to be with lovely relatives and explore a new beach! It is amazing area with the most incredible rock formations. I love it!

To be more precise these Bude formations are chevron folding multi-layer stacks of sandstone and shale.

New work

2010-04-25T06:08:00.000-07:00

Spring is upon us and next time I will show some new colour work that I have been doing but I could not resist my dark side.

New hopes

2010-01-10T08:55:00.000-08:00

2010 is upon us all and I hope it will be a great year. I am getting off to a positive start after such an amazing 2009. I have some new photographs (please see very small selection below) and am getting myself prepared for more hard work creating new etchings.

Art & Democracy at Gallery H in New York

2009-09-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

I am over the moon to be one of the 40 artists picked to show their work in the exhibition ART & DEMOCRACY.

Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the protests and murders at Tiananmen Square.

‘Berlin Crosses’ is an etching of the Berlin Wall Memorial. I made this work in 2005, and it has always haunted me. Though I didn’t know it at the time, history has added layers of ironic significance. A little while later I discovered, to my dismay, that the memorial was to be torn down. The memorial had never been ‘official’ but had grown organically from people’s desire to memorialise history. I wanted the starkness of very black crosses and a white ethereal background. The near crosses are explicit but further back they merge into a black mass.

If you are in or around New York this autumn please stop by. The exhibit will run from October 8 through December 31, 2009.

Gallery H
Art & Democracy Exhibit
222 E. 34th Street
New York, NY 10016

Thank you to the Visual Artists Guild who organised this exhibition. Please check out the website and all their great work.

As ever, all my work is for sale so please e-mail me if you are interested.

Colourscape Music Festival

2009-09-15T14:58:00.000-07:00

I was lucky to experience the 2009 Colourscape Music Festival this past weekend. This festival combines radiating colour passages and music. You are enveloped into another world as you walk through this labyrinth.

Thank you

2009-08-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

I wanted to thank everyone for the kind comments about my work. I really appreciate it! The exhibition was a success and a catalogue is being published so I will let everyone know when this happens.

The summer has been busy but also restful, seeing lovely friends and going to the Proms. I love the lights at the RAH though they are really sound buffers to improve the acoustics. We were waiting for Ballet Méchanique by George Antheil to begin. I love the film and of course the music soundtrack.

I am going back in the printmaking studio soon so once I do, I will update everyone with images of new and wonderful creations! So in the meantime here are some photos from a couple of years ago that have that Autumnal feel....

My work at the National Portrait Gallery!

2009-07-07T12:38:00.000-07:00

I am very happy to say that I am involved with another exhibition - this time at the National Portrait Gallery. It is a staff art show and what a pleasure to be involved with such talented people.

I am not sure about the hang as I had envisioned it to be horizontal not vertical but I am so pleased to have six images being exhibited together. I chose these images as it is new work from the Sandscape series and I like the balance of the six images together.

The exhibition is being held at the Studio Gallery at the NPG until July 21st 2009. Please come and have a peek!

Russia

2009-06-21T09:51:00.000-07:00

Just came back from Russia and what an amazing country. We started in Moscow then cruised along various rivers and lakes to St Petersburg. The 1100 miles took just over 8 days. I was overwhelmed by the hospitality and scenery.
Here are just a few photos from this magical land.

Morley Gallery

2009-04-18T08:13:00.000-07:00

Two of my latest etchings will be on exhibit at Morley Gallery which is part of Morley College
It is a student show -
Made09 - Printmaking and Bookbinding
Morley College, May 9 - 20, 2009

Sandscapes

2009-04-12T12:32:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a series from abstract textural studies of Nova Scotia beaches.

Secret Histories

2009-04-12T11:05:00.000-07:00

These images are from a series called Secret Histories, which eventually became one of my artists books. I exhibited these books at the ICA Artists Book Fair in 2007.