I Don’t Want Pretty (or Nice)

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I want good, new, modern

I know it is an odd title but that is what I thought while painting and redoing this work. My idea was to bring the awakening of spring into this work, as in: the surrounding is beautiful red wet earth and the day light brightness opening up our . . . → Read More: I Don’t Want Pretty (or Nice)

Rusty Love and the Octopuses Garden

the bear

“The Vancouver Sun” brought an article about the huge rusty metal art and architectural use in the City, that made me very happy because…….. that is what I like.

       

the bear as guard dog by the entrance of our house

                  . . . → Read More: Rusty Love and the Octopuses Garden

Free challenge – winner receives one “small art”

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     A Little Song     win this painting

Free 5×7’ painting for the person who gets closest to answer my question , have fun, read some of my blogs to get to know my way of expressing myself through abstract paintings

Starting Sunday January 29th to Sunday Feb.5th at . . . → Read More: Free challenge – winner receives one “small art”

Gerald’s Garden

Gerold's Garden, Aug. 2006 027 (2)

Dreaming of summer and the colors to come.

January is a good time to dream of a flower garden. Catalogues galore flying through the front door into my house, so to speak.

When we still lived in the Kootenays at the North end of the Lake,  not the best region for flower gardens . . . → Read More: Gerald’s Garden

“Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

sturm at Red Kliff

Second part of  ”See Stuecke”

“Weather Painting”

four as one – each 10×7″

My paintings are a confluence of abstraction and realism evolving from natural seascapes. Also based on the reality of seascapes the composition is generated in the studio and evolves into inner meaning of my live

“Color Rising . . . → Read More: “Seestuecke” (sea scapes) – continues …. dunes…. weather

Abstract – what is it ??

Abstract –  what is it ??

Does not abstract mean that it derives from an abstract thought?

Thinking abstract we understand but an abstract painting????

How to read this painting:

Direction: sacred place

Means: singing forest

How I did get here – see article in “painters world, sea to canvas –sacred places”

The . . . → Read More: Abstract – what is it ??

Rain Forest – Haida Gwaii

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Decay and re-growth

Mysterious and misty, windblown and rain-saturated, these are some words I would use to describe the rainforest on Haida-Gwaii

These islands are a wonder on the West Coast of British Columbia.

There is a constant life cycle going on in the rain forest, decay and re-growth

acrylic/canvas    20×30″     . . . → Read More: Rain Forest – Haida Gwaii

A Do Your Own — Spring

birdcorner

So, I really had it – cold – wet – at least 5 – FIVE  – little flowering shrubs did give up living because of wet feet

S0 —-  now I made my own picture garden,  first I painted – then I photographed…

and then I did blog – and then -

well—back . . . → Read More: A Do Your Own — Spring

Salmon

fabric art piece " Estai" oil disaster on  the west coast

It is 2010 Friday Morning in Abbotsford B.C. Canada – Time to go shopping for a sockeye Salmon – we have the biggest return of fish since 1913.

– and –

Where are they? I went to 3 stores – no whole salmon to be found  – just some more pricey fillets. Or . . . → Read More: Salmon