Category: Nature
Garden Tree
July 28, 2026
I’ve often thought nature was the best gardener. Mossy rocks and ferns near a bubbling stream or bleached driftwood surrounded by sea grass and beach pea, sometimes look like they’ve been artfully ...
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The Art of Reframing (What's in Your Mind)
July 2, 2026
Categories: Motivation, Nature
I have a habitual way of thinking or coping skill I discovered as a tree planter. When in extreme discomfort I would automatically think about something worse that could be happening.
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How to Trick Time (Before It Tricks You)
March 30, 2026
Categories: Inspiration, Nature
One summer, when I was about ten years old, there was a moment in time that I haven’t forgotten. It wasn’t an exciting moment, more of an everyday moment.
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Carpe Diem
February 27, 2026
Categories: Art Process, Nature
In this painting, called: “Carpe Diem” (“seize the day” in Latin), the walls of the house have magically disappeared. What is usually pictured indoors, or on a patio, is instead outside, surrounded ...
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Reflection
January 29, 2026
There is a maze of trails in the area I live that mountain bikers call The Vortex. Once you go in, you may not find your way out. In this place, just ...
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How to Paint a Piano with 20 Kids
December 1, 2025
This November I was asked to paint a piano (an actual piano, not a painting of a piano) with the students enrolled in the Fine Arts eCademy (Fae) at NIDES (North Island ...
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At the Edge of Nowhere - Amber Painting
February 4, 2025
In this painting, Amber, a yellow-orange couch is resting in the middle of the Comox logging road. The setting is referenced from a blurry photo I took at dusk in winter. I ...
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Cougar Annie and the Art of Survival
December 2, 2024
Cougar Annie was a legendary character on the west coast. At the end of a five-day hike around the Hesquiat Peninsula with friends, we received a tour of Cougar Annie’s garden led ...
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Why I Love Bikes
October 31, 2024
I can still remember my first bike. It was a red “girls” bike with a matching red and white seat. I called it Thunder, pretending it was a horse, and rode it ...
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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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