Ottawa Society of Botanical Artists is having an exhibition at the Canadian Botanical Association's Conference. Here is a presentation of the artists (including me) and their art in progress. #botanicalart site.pheedloop.com/event/CBAABC...

Mr Socks making peak use of a Sunday sunbeam on the May long weekend.

📢 Today is #WorldMEDay ME is a seriously disabling condition impacting at least 67 million people worldwide. Medical education is lacking in most countries and patients are regularly denied the care they deserve.

An old painting as my belated ME Awareness Day post #NEISVoid.

Drop some TEETH

Last week was mostly medical appointments, but here’s a painting I’m hoping to finish this week. Very nearly content with it. The Dream Repository, acrylic, 20x25 cm.

Since it’s Mother’s Day, in accordance with my tradition, here’s Elizabeth, mom’s mom’s mom’s mom’s mom. Plus or minus a generation.

Friends, we have a winner.

Tried to get to my doctor’s office this morning but had to give up, thanks to OC Transpo. Frustrating and exhausting way to waste a couple of hours.

Hey, everyone! Know what today is? It's Official Johannes Cabal Day! The day when kids dress up as morally ambivalent necromancers and play traditional games like "Burgle the Mortuary" and "Torches & Pitchforks." Join in the fun by buying all my books many more times than is sensible! Yay! Fun!

Of all animals in that collective wooden bestiary called pew end, my favourites are avatars of the Queen of Owls. Whether Fethrower or Owlpad, they manifest her mysteries. They give her eyes, give her carved eyes. They make even a church part of her kingdom. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982

Hey your Ottawa prints!

First day this year when I’ve been able to sit in the garden with a cup of tea and a book. The local pair of ravens flew over, heard starlings and sparrows singing, and the trillium buds are pushing up through last year’s leaves.

#mushrooms for #RepostYourArt theme? Here’s The Fallen Tree, my personal favourite which includes mushrooms.

The new modem looks friendlier now

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.

Sunbeam appreciation this afternoon.

Steeleye Spam #FoodBands

An old painting from my series of submarines surfacing in the Mer Bleue.

All hail Avis Rex

Surfs Up! The Little Chaudière Rapids are roiling and the river is gnawing at its banks today.

Happy Saturday! An old painting while I wait for a Bell technician to try to improve our internet connection.

Sunny day here, was able to get out for a short walk and deposited another piece in my sporadic miniature abstract art series.

"Simply put, the bodies of people with ME/CFS can not efficiently do the work of recovery. And because these abnormalities are found in pwME but not matched deconditioned controls, we can confidently say that PEM is not deconditioning." likeannopeningbandforthesun.substack.com/p/in-pursuit...

Have some #colorful orchids for #repostyourart Water soluble encaustic on black prepped canvas board #botanicalart #bloomscrolling #orchids

I like writing captions for my photographs, but lately my mind has been way too clogged for it. I have managed to take a few images I’d like to share, but I also want to write texts for them as they feel like important topics. 1/5 #MECFS #pwME #Photography

There comes a moment when you realise your weirdness is you strength. Lean into it. There comes a moment when you realise you are Fully-grown Changeling. Celebrate it. We are strange and we are here.

Good morning! Here we all still are. First Interview in my new era. (Many of you here will be blissfully unaware of my hell era) It was with @theneverpress.bsky.social and it was great fun. zine.theneverpress.com/interview-th...

From my Universal Anxiety Protection Suit series. In case you’ve been following the news.

Good morning. He’s not a lap cat but he still has ways to immobilize me. How could I get up when he’s holding my hand with his entire body?

#repostyourart of #birds Oil paint on canvas. No #pigeons were bothered in the making of this #painting #pigeonsky #oilpainting #eastcoastkin

Fragile. A miniature painting from about a decade ago. (Nearly life size if you’re looking at it on a phone screen)

To celebrate 100 years since Otto Dix painted his 1926 portrait of Sylvia von Harden, Centre Pompidou recreated it using actress Isa Desplantes

First Rat on Mars. After all, we’ve taken them everywhere else with us…

Rocket Rat!

Two more forgotten paintings from my archives, ca 2018. I often worked in ink wash while caring for Mom at her house. Not a forgiving medium but requires minimal kit and little space.

Just listened to this interview - absolutely wonderful. Thanks Andrew for the recommendation

Another crash day so here’s another old painting. Memory Thief at the Squeeze Stile, acrylic, 20x25 cm.

A fascinating look at an aspect of using colour

A little painting from my series of Ornamental Hermits. Had completely forgotten making this until spotting it in my camera roll this morning.

Reframing the Two Princesses while recovering from a multi-day crash. I’d grown dissatisfied with the ornate gold frame it had been in, so I ebonized an old oak frame. Looks much better to me in this test fit.

This MERL initiative is rodent-approved!

In case anyone had told you that cats don’t have facial expressions…

Good afternoon. Three weeks of my life well spent, right here. Tis A2 and all detailed pencil with crosshatched shading, chalk and white ink.

And winter’s back…. Prefer this to the freezing rain earlier this week, but looking forward to spring.

Just realized it’s almost half-way through March and I hadn’t posted a hare yet…

These are so adorable yet ominous. Some look like they should be paintings by Max Ernst…

Well, this doesn’t look ominous at all… No precipitation at home yet, but first scattering of grit on the steps done.

Heading to the Carleton Tavern for this next Ottawa spot. This tavern has been around since 1935! I hope you enjoy the classic frontage. After the recent news, and the importance of this spot to the Ottawa animation community, it was a no brainer of a choice. #art

Owl Yin Yang for #OwlishMonday 🤍🌀🖤