Summer Fun

First of all, let me say that I hope you are all enjoying the arrival of the summer weather! There are always a tonne of things to be done around our home in Sooke but as you can see from the photos, late spring, early summer can be pretty idyllic.

New Series  I have been taking a deep dive into planning a new series of paintings. Using my experiences from the 100 day project I am going to allow myself an experimental phase and let the work develop organically. As always, I am going to use a dream as the launch point for the paintings and I have been doing some research on the themes. Writing to clarify my ideas has also been a big help. I will keep you posted as the series progresses.

Art Show The Xchanges annual members’ exhibition opens in the gallery Friday, June 25 at 7:00pm and runs weekends until Sunday, July 4, 2021. I will be showing my painting ‘Trawling for Birds’. Trawling for Birds was a piece that I started for a demo and finished during the first lock down last year. It’s a painting for me that will always remind me of the high levels of anxiety, uncertainty and sadness at the time. I got a sneak peak at a few of the pieces in the exhibition when I dropped my work off and I am really looking forward to seeing the show.