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Huddled here in the studio as the rain beats down outside, It is easy to feel melancholy. Still, when the rain subsides (if only for a short while) I marvel at the amazing colours of Autumn - clinging to the trees and washing along the roads towards clogged drains.  Autumn is by far my favourite season - and luckily this year I was able to briefly see it draping the beautiful hillsides of Swaledale, in Yorkshire, where my sister and I took my Mum for a long weekend.  We spent our childhood holidays clambering about on those hillsides and splashing in the...

I do hope you can join me at the opening reception of my solo show on September 9th.   I will be giving a brief talk on how, with no formal artistic education, I have made my career as a painter here in Vancouver and how, as the cityscape constantly evolves, I find new inspiration.

In case you missed it, I now have the 2018 Wall and Small Spiral bound calendars in stock at the studio.  There won't be a stand-up desk calendar this year, and I have limited quantities of the others so please let me know if you would like me to send you yours.  The Wall calendar has been redesigned this year by my dear friend Jim and looks beautiful, IMHO. AND - to encourage you to get your orders in early, from now until September 15th, any calendar orders I receive through my online store, will receive a special gift -  of...

Looks like it's going to be another couple of fun and sunny weekends at the Harmony Arts Festival, in beautiful West Vancouver. Starting on Friday August 4th at 2pm, you can find me in Booth 42 (right next to my good friend Mark Wilkinson of Plunger Cove) at the Art Market on Argyle Avenue. The festival is always a wonderful mix of wonderful music, food and fabulous art and touch wood, the weather usually cooperates so we can look forward to a sunshine and sea breezes.  Hope you can pop by to say hello!  More details at : https://harmonyarts.ca/art/art-market

I am very excited and honoured to have been asked to exhibit some of my work at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden during the month of September. The show’s theme, “Home:Grown,” will allow me to show paintings which focus on the 30 years of making Vancouver my home, and how all who live here adapt to the city’s constantly changing neighbourhoods. It will also hopefully allow for a wee bit of a look back at some of my earliest pieces, depicting Vancouver in the late '80s and '90s. More information about the show will be posted here soon!...