Lesson in Abstract

September 28, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

I signed up for a ten-day free painting course a while back. I compromised of 5 exercises and 5 zoom meetings to discuss the process. It was actually quite excellent. Lesson 1 was to tape off two large pieces of paper, each into six sections. Then setting a timer to 30 minutes, painting on the […]

Acrylic Interlude

September 4, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Between hosting Ukrainians, and meeting with community members to ensure supports are in place, I take the odd pause to hide away in my art room. My son graciously converted our downstairs guest room into an art studio for me and gave me all his paints and canvases. It marked a new chapter in my […]

Pondering Abstractions

December 2, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The certainty of yesterdayhas slipped our grasplight deflecting truthtossing us into the abstract I ponder processand outcomes,will my mind to carry megliding between thermalsdissolving into vapours Some realities too hard to bear –dislodged, we tread the indeterminate. (I submit these images and poem to the challenges of Lens-Artists and Ragtag Community. While we try to […]