Funny how this floppy, dusty top hat floats around my imagination. Perhaps part of me is still stuck in the 1800s. With all the anxiety revolving around Covid 19 (This image drawn on March 16th, 2020), my mind must be looking for connections to make some sense of it all. The only conclusion I can … Continue reading Once, When I Found This Cool Hat – The Hollow Ones #26
Pre-Spring Colours – A Delicious Palet of Subtle Hues
There are so many reasons I love Spring and they all have to do with the surprises that pop out after the snow melts. I get excited and impatient to see it all! I've almost always focused on the small wildflowers hiding under all this dead stuff, but this time I looked closely at the … Continue reading Pre-Spring Colours – A Delicious Palet of Subtle Hues
What If We're The Aliens? – The Hollow Ones #26
I intended something else for this, but the black pastel took over and changed the shape of the head... it suddenly looked alien, instead of human. Then I started to question if all my heads looked alien. This wasn't so much self-doubt as it was fascination. I have a belief that we often draw from … Continue reading What If We're The Aliens? – The Hollow Ones #26
On The Edge Between Winter & Spring
In a nearby field, there are these relatively nondescript boulders; cracked and crumbling. From afar they look nothing special. Get up close and see something completely different. The boulder is made up of millions of smaller quartz crystals. It's what I imagine the underskin of a geode might look like. I wonder if the inside … Continue reading On The Edge Between Winter & Spring
Temptation – The Hollow Ones #24
Here she is again, only sometime further in her career... career in what? I don't know. My imagination says she's some sort of spy, a female James Bond type. In control of her decisions, but not free of her emotions... just like him. Here she is the temptress in her cool dress, in a space … Continue reading Temptation – The Hollow Ones #24
Morning Shadows
My practice during this isolation has been to wake up every morning, look out the window and exclaim (in my head) gratitude for some aspect of what I see. Mostly, it's 'thank you's for the sunshine, amazing coloured skies, or the peace of windblown trees. On this morning the sun was especially amazing. It cast … Continue reading Morning Shadows
Dangerous Elegance – The Hollow Ones #23
I did another version of this pretty lady a few days ago and I find the image keeps coming back as if I'm not entirely finished figuring out what she wants to say. Is she trolling the ballroom? Is she confident or scared? Is she a predator or victim? What does this reflect from my … Continue reading Dangerous Elegance – The Hollow Ones #23
A Tidy Nest-Making Kit
I'm not sure if someone was trying to make a nest under the snow; if this was a nest for the tiny field mice we see nibbling the backed scraps we throw out for the squirrels, or if this was a bundle prepared by one of the many industrious birds we see in our yard. … Continue reading A Tidy Nest-Making Kit
A Gift of the Kiln Gods #29
Details: Pinch Pots construction; Terracotta clay body; Multiple glazes; Cone 04 electric firing; Average height/width - 5 to 10 cms. Inquiries & comments on technique and/or availability welcome here. More to come...
Left Hanging
The wind blows all sorts of things around our backyard. I wonder if it's something dropped by the industrious robins who build nests in our trees if it's part of a previous year's gardening efforts or part of the winterizing efforts I engage in every Fall. Whatever its origins, I wouldn't have noticed it unless … Continue reading Left Hanging
The New Renaissance Mindset 