The Atlantic Journalism Awards announced its 2019 winners on May 8, 2020 (read the news release). I was honoured to receive recognition for my artwork. My landscape art featured on the fall 2019 cover of Atlantic Books Today, which secured Gold for Best Cover. One of my nonfiction pieces, “Accordion to Don” from the summer […]
Read More Recognition for Art and Writing at this year’s Atlantic Journalism AwardsManotick Art Gallery and Framing is hosting its vernissage weekend at the gallery, Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th with Gordon Harrison and his apprentices. Harrison and all of the painters (that includes me) will be at the gallery for the opening weekend to chat about our landscape art and answer any questions. This exhibit […]
Read More Landscape Art Exhibit: Gordon Harrison and his ApprenticesI’m working on a new collection called, “For The Love Of The Sea-nery.” It’s inspired by this piece (see featured photo). I used acrylic paints, deviating from my love of oil paints. It was experimental – the choice of paints, but also the choice of image. I’ve been working on landscapes and many seascapes too, […]
Read More For the Love of the Sea-nery: My Next CollectionIn Gros Morne National Park, these words are sacred: “Leave only footprints, take only pictures, and kill only time.” Plan on doing a lot of each of those things when you visit. There are countless lists of must-dos, must-sees, must-stays for the area, but let me tell you about one must item on my list, […]
Read More In Gros Morne National Park: “Leave only footprints, take only pictures, and kill only time”Dr. Jeff A. Webb is a professor in the Department of History at Memorial University and author of Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980. I interviewed Dr. Webb for the January 2018 issue of Downhome Magazine (see “Abandoned Architecture As Art: Newfoundland Resettlement In Photographs”). This is our full edited interview. Q. What were […]
Read More Relocating Newfoundland OutportsMy latest landscape painting took me to the Hamlet of Pangnirtung | ᕼᐋᒻᒪᓚᒃᑯᓐᓄ ᐸᖕᓂᕐᑑᒥ (in Inuktitut). Pangnirtung is located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, some 300km northeast of Iqaluit, the territory’s capital. I’ve never set foot there. The photo inspiration for this piece was taken by a friend and colleague who travelled throughout Canada’s youngest territory […]
Read More Pangnirtung, Nunavut: A Painted Landscape Scene in the Canadian ArcticI picked up my paintbrush a few years ago and just went for it. With my acrylic paints in hand and a collection of gallery-wrapped canvases, I began to paint. The results were not what I was anticipating. I seemingly could not achieve the images I had in my head. But there were a couple of […]
Read More Painting Landscapes: Creating what I seeFeatures my artwork from 2015+, including works painted with and under the guidance of Canadian landscape painter, Gordon Harrison and one painted under the guidance of Canadian painter, Rosemary Leach.
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