small paintings
New works for 2024. I'll also gather some that I have neglected to post during the pandemic. Funny how that shut me down for online work. I seem to be moving into more complexity in my images and more subdued colours.
December 2, 2020 Below are some images from my expanding collection of "Beautiful Invaders" paintings. These are small works, only 7" X 7" on Arches 140 cold press paper with Winsor and Newton watercolours. They are usually completed the day the leaves are collected. I used to paint these leaves when my children were at the leaving home stage and I was working full time at UVic. Now I seem to be at a similar time of change. Moving from working full time and transitioning into retirement- not from painting but from regular teaching commitments. Perhaps this is why these small accessible subjects are calling me again. I have a love/hate relationship with change and with Himalayan Blackberries. I do not like them taking over wild spaces. I do love eating them in July and August. This time of year I hike with clippers and leather gloves to cut off runners and remover overhanging brambles. These treasures are $150.00 each. j