Artist failure is vital. Fear of failure is counterproductive. Does failure bother me? Sure. But I can't be afraid of it happening. Fear can be paralyzing. Fear of a failing painting can be very difficult to deal with and often compounds problems. Every painting I...
Artist Studio practice*. Prior to Contemporary Landscape Painting teaching classes at Station Gallery in Whitby Ontario, I give a lot of thought to my process and why I do some of the things I do. I had started recording the process from start to finish with a few...
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David Byrne - Live at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto Ontario. Decades ago, as a small boy, I was introduced to Talking Heads through two different relatives on two different occasions (read about it here). It was the early part of the 1980's and I...
I've been making a Lino Cut Bird Art Print! I had started practicing lino cutting over the last year or so. It started out as a little side project for myself. It was a process I had learned decades ago, along with screen printing, while in my high school art class. I...
The name of the band is... Some time early in the 1980's my family went into the big city of Vancouver, British Columbia to visit family. My dad's cousin Jimmy, who my brother and I called cousin Jimmy was a bearded fellow who, to my young eyes, walked to the beat of...
Destroyer has a new record out and it's right nice, as usual. Dan Bejar at his finest. In early 2001 my friend Jamie sent me a cassette in which were copied some Destroyer songs from the Streethawk: A Seduction album. I was immediately and irrevocably head over heels...
21 years in my short list of 'need to see' bands. I never did see The Tragically Hip or Gord Downie live. I had opportunities and serious intentions. Early on, sold out shows, conflicting events or travel kept pushing it back to 'next time'. Even after moving to...
This photo of my cousin has been in my family's possession for decades. It was taken in 1984. I remember it as a kid. I remember the cars that my cousin would buy and sell. He loved cars. It's possible that this photos inspired my new series of automobiles and their...
Sneak Peek! New Store Front Series: This series of Store Front and Strip Mall paintings has been inspired by our notion of what is important and what is not. In architecture, many building will be designated as important heritage sites, while others are considered...