Category: Inspiration
A Wild Experience - Hiking the Hesquiat Peninsula
September 29, 2024
At the end of August I hiked the Hesquiat trail with my husband and four other friends. The trail follows the coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula, a large promontory just south of ...
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The Creative Focus at MISSA
July 30, 2024
In hindsight, I can see that it was a random chain of events that led me to teach drawing at the Metchosin Summer School of the Arts (MISSA) this July.
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Keep Dreams Alive
May 31, 2024
Categories: Inspiration, Motivation
What is your dream? We may have fantasies about what we would like to happen, but knowing how to make them come true may be about as clear as trying to see ...
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The Search for Treasure
May 1, 2024
A common stumbling block for artists is “not knowing what to draw, paint, write or sew etc…”. I have heard students or artist friends lament about this and I have been stuck ...
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Permission to Paint
March 3, 2024
I’ve always felt that I had permission to be an artist. Not in an official way, like I asked someone and they said it was ok – but in a way that ...
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The Shaping of Worlds - The Legacy of Alexander Von Humboldt
February 1, 2024
We may not always realize how individuals and movements throughout time have shaped how we view the world today. One example I recently learned about was in Andrea Wulf’s book: The Invention ...
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Like Riding A Bike - Getting Creative Work Done
January 1, 2024
I’ve always disliked goals – maybe it’s because my goals weren’t set in reality. I tried goals to “do a painting every week”, or “make set amount of money” but it just ...
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What Is The Purpose?
December 5, 2023
Categories: Inspiration, Motivation
But it is not always easy to know what our unique purpose is. So, I wonder if we can just feel rest assured that there are two true purposes for every human ...
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How Birds Give Us a Sense of Wonder
October 3, 2023
One of the most precious gifts I received as a child was a large picture book of birds painted by the 19th century ornithologist/artist, James Audubon. It was from my grandparents in ...
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Treading on Traditional Territory
September 4, 2023
Categories: Inspiration, Nature
Last spring, I went on a field trip with my son’s grade 11 English “First People’s” class to Mac Laing Park in Comox with Dr. Jesse Morin, a local archeologist. The experience ...
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