JUST PLAY (AGAIN)
Kids really are the best. They live life like they really mean every minute of it.They go everywhere at a gallop until they’re too pooped to go on, and rarely giving much thought to what happens next. When they do give it some thought, it’s with the faith that it’s probably going to be AWESOME! […]
ON YOUR WAY OUT, OR BACK…
Six of my recent paintings will be going up at Victoria International Airport on Monday for an extended show through October 15, 2018. I’m incredibly grateful to Victoria Arts Council, CRD, and British Columbia Arts Council for their commitment to the arts in BC, and for providing such awesome opportunities for us to show people […]
NOTHING WASTED
It was March 2016 and I was walking along a beach in James Bay when I noticed the leftovers of a beach fire someone had set. For some reason the charcoal looked beautiful to me, it reminded me of a crow wing or feathers. I went to have a closer look and realized that I could probably […]
RECURSION STUDIES
This one’s hard to explain. It’s one of those times when very disparate ideas come together. In my life as a developer, I’ve been preoccupied for the last little while developing a task management tool I actually like using. It’s not easy because I use a technique called recursive deconstruction: take one task and break it down into […]
SPUTNIK!
In Russian, “sputnik” means “Satellite”, or “Fellow Traveller”. I’ve been fascinated by the story of Sputnik I since I was a little kid: this little hunk of metal and plastic that zipped around the world saying, “beep. beep. beeeeeeep…”. I also found it incredibly funny how this little tyke could be so threatening to the US political […]
PROGRESSION STUDIES
The name of this series comes from the progressive layering of thin layers of ink. I’d done a lot with progressive darkening using thin washes of translucent pigments. What I hadn’t experimented with before was thin layers of light, opaque colours. For some reason, I had this idea in my head that they’d always get really granular […]
STRANGE SEMAPHORE
Let’s get the title of this series out of the way. Jill thought they looked like the flags they use on boats, so that’s what they’re called. They’re not a secret system of signs and signals. They’re not any kind of semaphore at all, really. What they really are is an abuse of art paper. I got really interested […]
SPRING MATRICES
The word matrix means a lot of different things to different people. I know the expression from direct marketing to mean a simple x/y grid. I also know it from print-making to mean whatever is used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print. To the biologist, matrices are the tissues in animal […]
QUIET INSISTENCE
I can remember visiting the AGO (Art Gallery if Ontario) in my early twenties and falling in love with Agnes Martin’s paintings. Among all the big, bright, brash American art of the 60s and 70s in the contemporary galleries, one of Agnes Martin’s paintings stood out to me with a quiet insistence that still surprises me. Sometimes […]
I’M IN!!!
I’m In! I just found out that I’ve been selected to participate in the 2018 TD Art Gallery Paint-In! Victoria people will probably know it better as the Moss Street Paint-In. I’m excited as heck. Jill and Miriam have offered to help out that day, and we’ll be doing something interactive for the kids (and kids at […]