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Adele 2025 05 - 2025 06 10

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  Pen and highlighter pen on paper 6" x 10" A drawing of my rescue dog, Adele. A sketch in highlighter pen on paper. The paper is ripped from a notebook. The drawing of Adele is tight to the lower left hand corner. The background is 'unfinished' or untouched. The background is filled with possibility. My eye is drawn to the picture of Adele and the expression in her eyes, "What is she looking at?". My eye is also drawn to the unmarked space. The possibilities of emptiness that align my heart and spirit with the potential energy of eternity. This drawing was made one evening sitting at the dining table with my friends, talking about life and working on our own creative projects. A few of thoughts about artistic production and sharing our work. What is value? What is worth doing? What is worth sharing? First, I am remembering our lessons in photo documenting our work from art school. We were taught to be very precise and accurate in our photo-documentation. We...

Neighbour Cat - 2025 05 31

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  Graphite, pencil crayons on mylar - 9" x 12" I am grateful to my neighbourhood cats who sit long enough for me to record their image. They serve as a worthy subject to process and channel the zeitgeist of this moment through drawing. The cat is wary. It is alert. There is a timeline of destruction tracing across the horizon. We are city folk, living in our coastal urban village. The cats have agency, they have character, they have skills. The cats are my teachers.

Celtic keys and Fibonacci sequence - 2025 05 30

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  Highlighter pen, pen and ink, pencil crayon on paper - 81/2" x 10" Last evening we sat at the dining room table, me and my friend, Louise. She was practicing drawing with brush and watercolour in shades of grey. I was playing with patterns and sequence in shades of blue, green and violet. As we worked on our drawings we talked about our week, the latest developments, embarrassments, frustrations and victories. I shared new songs, playing imperfectly to convey melodies, lyrics and imagery floating up to the surface in response to life events. My pattern making was also imperfect. There are errors of repetition and sequence. I couldn't remember exactly how the key design worked so I improvised my own based on what I remembered. I would make structural rules for myself and then, lost in conversation, forget what they were and break the rule. Noticing I had broken the rule and thus set a new rule, I would shrug and continue drawing, curious to see how the drawing was going ...

Freeform Celtic - 2025 05 22

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  Pen and highlighter on paper - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" This drawing started out as an unruly grid of dots and emerged as a continuous knotted line with a spiral pattern drawing us into the dark inner reaches of the doorway. 

Neighbour Cat - 2025 05 22

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  Graphite, pencil crayon and soft pastel on paper - 9" x 12" Neighbour cat does not know if I am friend or foe. She is crouching to make herself small, but also bunching her muscles ready to make a leap, if necessary.

Neighbour Cat - 2025 04 24

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  Graphite, pencil crayons on mylar You know what it is like when you finish a big job and you need to quickly pivot to the next big job that was falling behind? And there is still a third big job, also falling behind? : [] And all you want to do is take pictures, write, draw, paint and play music?  And buy a new camera. But you have no idea where your cashflow is going to come from next?

Neighbour Cat enters the chat - 2025 04 14

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