Oil on Canvas Looking from Kitsilano in Vancouver over to the North Shore mountains. Early fall so some of the leaves have already begun to change colour.

Oil on Canvas

Just finished this painting. Oil on canvas, 35x35"

Oil on Canvas 30x24"

One of my favourite subjects. I love to watch their transformation as they are fading, dying.

I've been reworking this painting of my garden that I did some years ago. Interesting exercise to go back, rethink, reimagine. Oil on...

Oil on canvas. I've recently been thinking of how my Vancouver garden is so often saturated with rain, clouds, grey skies. With the...

Oil Painting 18x24"

In this painting of a bouquet of tulips I'm playing with the vibrancy and intensity of the colours in the painting and the flowing...

The Broken Flower paintings are about memory- the way we remember selectively, forget, blot things out, remember again, but differently...

I've just finished this new painting "Landscape Memories", 4x3 feet. During the past months I've been longing to travel. The painting is...

Two paintings of the leaves of my Hydrangea Aspera, summer and autumn. Oil on canvas with silver and gold leaf

These paintings "Midwinter Frost" and "Midsummer Night" represent two very opposite seasons in my garden. The paintings are about absence...

I've been drawing and painting Alstroemeria. There is a wonderful loose softness, messiness, blowsiness to them that I love! Used some...

Hollyhocks, in bud, before they have bloomed. Hollyhock, in bloom Last year in early August I spent some time in the village of Caseneuve in the Luberon in southern France. Hollyhocks were growing everywhere, a riot of Hollyhocks (Rose Tremiere in french). They seem to have the ability to grow anywhere that there is the smallest bit of soil, amongst paving stones, beside houses, between broken bits of pavement.

HERE ARE SOME PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE. I SPENT A MONTH STUDYING ITALIAN IN TODI, A GORGEOUS LITTLE TOWN IN UMBRIA....

SOME PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY WOMEN IN GARDENS

I've been working on a series of small (6x6") encaustic landscapes.

I have recently begun to paint with encaustic wax. The hot, liquid wax must be painted very quickly onto the wood support. I'm enjoying...