Tag: creativity
My Little Green World
March 4, 2025
Categories: Uncategorized
Our little veggie garden and greenhouse will pump out a surprising number of vegetables over the entire growing season. Almost every day in the summer I can fill a bowl with an ...
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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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Health Equals Creativity
January 5, 2025
To live a creative life, you don’t need an ideal working space, money to buy paint, a difficult past or to have been born with tons of talent. I think the main ...
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How Colour Makes Me Feel
August 29, 2024
I’ve often imagined that observing bright colours, especially in nature, was like taking vitamins. The neon green moss in the forest in February, an intense dark blue sky behind white snowy trees, ...
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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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Did the Dinosaurs Think?
April 1, 2024
Categories: Creativity, Nature
It can be hard to believe, that we live our day to day lives on land that was once shaped by ice or volcanic lava, been the bottom of an ocean, or ...
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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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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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Creating Space
July 25, 2023
Categories: Creativity, Inspiration
I have been thinking about “space” lately, while replanting some shrubs and trees. Having to consider how much space something like an apple tree will need when it is full grown is difficult while ...
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