Over the years, a simple saying has helped me focus and move effortlessly along my chosen terrain – could they be words to live by?
Archives for May 2014
You Take Your Travels With You
An overgrown grave in East Highgate Cemetery in London, England. Graves in the East HIghgate Cemetery in London, England date all the way back to the 1800’s. Many of them are overgrown and derelict, thereby rendering the descriptions unreadabl
Sway
Maya Angelou said something like ” If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Powerful stuff. So I changed they way I thought about myself. I let myself take risks, go down paths I was unsure of, tried new things, stopped doing things that were not helpful ( comparison is the death of joy) and painted whatever I wanted to paint.
Evolving Your Life
Given the elasticity of the body, and especially of the brain, we have the ability to change these patterns. We can break the grooves that keep us trapped in repetition and narrow mindedness.
Let Me
Let me be
This serene bubble
This soothing facade
This warming treachery
The best joke till date
Concrete Creations: A Thinner Mix
On my wish list was the ability to create items with thin walls … 1/8 – 1/4 inches. To do so, I needed to overcome some technical challenges and find a thinner, more pourable mix. During this stage, I met 2 very helpful people. Ryan and Bendix!
California Dreaming
As a landscape painter, I find the varied terrain in the western US quite inspirational. The beauty of California particularly touches my heart and soul – from the verdant hills of the wine country to the majestic coastline.
Dancehall Reggae Music Scene
The photos here are selected from a series of portraits taken at Kingston recording studio Channel One in 1984. Young artists gathered around the studio all day, waiting for auditions or for their time to step inside and voice a piece over of one of the popular rhythm tracks.
A Journey to Spirit #5: The Clothesline Romance
Life was good. In his hay day, Boo ran The Boat House that sat next door to the Shady Rest on the beachfront in Qualicum. I can still smell the French fries and vinegar, their scent tantalizing my grumbling stomach after a full day of swimming and playing in the sun.
In The Wake Of The Trepassey
Family tradition always had it that my great-uncle Captain Eugene Burden had carried scientists to the Antarctic Ocean in the 1940’s, and that he had brought a film crew down to provide footage for the 1948 British film, “Scott of the Antarctic”.