Abstraction can have the power to reveal the sacred. Abstract painting can be a simplification of reality or a way of revealing its most complex elements seen through the filter of the soul, outside of time and space. Georgia O’Keeffe said the most important thing and artist can do is make their unknown, known. Each […]
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Finding Water En Plein Air
I have no studio. I haven’t had one for over a year now. Trying to paint in a dining room with constantly shifting light proved to be too much. And after what has been a soul crushing year that continues its punishing stress, I needed a shift in perspective. Extreme stress has a way of […]
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Revisiting Oklahoma Brings a Prize
There is a column in OVAC’s magazine (Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition) called Ekphrasis which connects the disciplines of poetry and art allowing them to inspire each other. I like to believe paintings or photographs are visual poetry, but they have often inspired me to write. Like painting, there are lots of failures and mediocre works […]
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Once Imagined…
After nearly a year of anticipation, the book launch is done and the exhibition is in its last week. (You can still see it at Auburn’s satellite location at the Shipyards at the waterfront in Gravenhurst until the 15th of October – Terry the curator says it’s the last exhibition for the year and some […]
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Once Imagined Launches September 30th!
It is finally here… The book of stories, paintings and photos of a series of Muskoka historical and abandoned buildings launches September 30th at the Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst. There will also be an exhibition of the last paintings from the series that will run until Thanksgiving. Join us at the Auburn Gallery in Gravenhurst at […]
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Interviewing Elva Stephens
The steep angle of the sun was deep gold in the late November afternoon. It was unseasonably warm. Wilted phlox frost bitten, but still green grew in the garden next to the front door. They were from Elva’s mother Belle’s, garden. They once grew near the vegetables, next to the ruined farmhouse now hidden from […]
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