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It is a cold dreary day, with all of the light in half shades of grey as the maple leaves are starting to fall. I am puttering around outside for a few minutes of fresh air and I catch a brief glance at the grey standing stones in my garden. A memory comes back to…
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I fell in love with encaustic in 2015. At the time, I was traveling through Arizona and New Mexico, working mainly in acrylics. The lighting and atmosphere there were so intoxicating that I seriously dreamed of one day moving there full time. One afternoon, while wandering through a gallery, I discovered encaustics. Something about the…
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First off, imagine waking up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday—usually your only day off, technically—to haul your pop-up tent, 40-pound bins of prints and cards, a couple of folding tables, your somewhat brilliant DIY display setups and some wild hope into a field or parking lot. Why? Because it’s market season, baby, and the…
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There’s nothing quite like preparing for a solo show. It’s a bit like inviting everyone to read your diary—if your diary were six feet wide, layered with colour and texture, and hung under gallery lights for all to see. Each brushstroke holds a secret. Each canvas, a confession.
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It wasn’t really a decision. Galiano chose me. I was actually in the middle of putting in an offer on a place on Mayne Island. In retrospect much better suited to me and my needs. A small photo of a forlorn cottage surrounded by old growth trees appeared in the side bar one fateful day.…
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The life altering moments visiting Grosse Ille in the middle of the St. Lawrence at the Irish Memorial National Historic Site [Canada’s secret, shameful version of Ellis Island and the horrors of what happened to the Irish survivors there] . I have stood on the mass grave of over 10,000 Irish souls and I felt…
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My painting routine begins with a feeling: sometimes it’s sparked by a photograph, sometimes by the way the light hits the water outside my window. I start thinking in colours, imagining the palette before I’ve even chosen a brush. Then I sketch out a loose draft in charcoal pencil and let the intuitive flow take…
The Meadow Art Studio 