Tonight’s the night! 🎨 The @laartshow opens at the L.A.Convention Centre! Here’s a new painting available now & will be on view at the fair! “Of Cloudless Climes & Starry Skies”, oil, 24”x18”, is at @pontonegallery booth 600 at the fair. I hope to see you tonight or on Friday Jan 9th 12-3pm!

2 days until @laartshow opens! Here’s 2 new paintings I’m excited to debut @ the fair:) “The Revalescence”, 30”x30”,avail, & “The Pearle”, 18”x24”,avail.🟢 @pontonegallery is delighted to be participating in LA Art Show (Booth 600) this January from 7th - 11th! See you there! www.laartshow.com

I’m thrilled to be showing with Pontone Gallery in LA this month!✨ Pontone Gallery will be at LA Art Show (Jan 7–11) @ booth 600! I hope to see you at the fair on opening night. I’ll also be there Friday, January 9 from 12–3 PM —I can’t wait to share these new paintings with you!

Wishing everyone a jubilant New Year! May you find peace, thrills, health, comfort and may your heart have ease. Here’s a favourite painting that always makes me feel hopeful. 🥰 “The Red Touque”, oil on canvas, 60”x40”, private collection, Delaware. 🔴

“At the edge of the precipice, courage is not jumping; it is staying.”~Jean Cocteau “The Step”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, 🟢 available via Pontone Gallery at L.A.Art Show January 7-11th, Booth 600. www.laartshow.com

Thank you :-)

Thank you @LarchmontChron for including my painting in your article about the upcoming L.A.Art Show Jan 7-11th! larchmontchronicle.com/la-art-show-...

Happy Holidays! Here’s a little present to open before Christmas…a new painting avail via Pontone Gallery! “Maia and Electra”, oil, 30”x40”, is available & will be at Pontone’s booth 600 at the LA Art Show running from January 7-11:) I hope to see you at the fair! www.artsy.net/artwork/heat...

“Felicia, Liminal”, oil on panel, 12”x12”, 🟢 is heading to the LA Art Show with Pontone Gallery! This painting along with a whole group of brand new works will be up at the fair from January 7-11th! I will be at the booth on opening night as well as January 9th from 12-3pm!

Every six months or so I replace my glass palette with a new one. My excellent framer here in LA thoughtfully painted some plywood white & affixed it to this lovely piece of glass. Ready to rock and roll! 🎨 I’m still not sure what to do with my old palettes..They seem 2 colourful to say goodbye to.

“Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really. Pressure and time.” ~Frank Darabont, ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ Getting into the holiday season started off with this sublime cinematic paean to the human condition.

I’ve painted a similar piece many years ago and feel this very much.

And sold! 🔴 “Saying goodbye to Wyll, Kahului”, oil on panel, 10”x8”, private collection. It was such a beautiful rainy day that day in Hawaii. Best friend since we were 12, I’m so happy to sail through the universe with Wyll as a kinwing.🪶🐦‍⬛

Grief is muscle memory; our hearts need to complete the motion of what was and what could have been. “Pieces of my Father”, 24”x20”, private collection🔴 & “Pieces of my Mother”, oil, 20”x16”, available w Abbozzo Gallery.

“The silence of the night was as the silence of a dream.”~Algernon Blackwood And sold!🔴 “Carlisle, 7th Concession”, oil on panel, 8”x10” has just sold to a wonderful new forever home via Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto. :-)

“In the North, silence is not emptiness. It is presence.”~Velma Wallis “Lisa, Kanuti”,oil on panel, 24”x18”, private collection. 🔴

It was a beautiful Celebration of Life for Tony Fitzpatrick last night at Metro Chicago. What a perfect tribute to Tony’s phenomenally textured life of creation and connection it was. 🩵🪶 Rest in peace my friend. “Chicago gets in your bones and ruins you for anywhere else.”~Tony Fitzpatrick

Heading to Chicago this weekend to a memorial for fellow artist and dear friend Tony Fitzpatrick. It’s gonna be beautiful, and heartfull and wingéd.🪶♥️

We need sleep, but we also need rest. 🩵 Navigating some health challenges this year has required “radical rest”. It’s essential for recovery. Sleep, yes, but devoted rest as well.🩵 “Ann”, oil. 2”x2”, priv coll. 🔴 < 2 months til @laartshow, Jan 7-11! I’ll have new works @ Pontone Gallery’s booth!

“The fugue is a learned piece in which several voices chase each other, much as human thoughts often do—fleeing, returning, losing and finding themselves again.”~Thomas Mann I love demarcating the different stages of a painting’s development. “Self portrait, fugue”, Oil, 4”x4”, private coll. 🔴

When you love your friends for their taste in books as much as where they place your work on their home. 🥰 “Pretty”, oil on panel, 6”x8”, private collection, Whidbey Island, WA. 🔴

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”~Carl Jung “Kensington”, oil on panel, 24”x18”, private collection. 🔴

“Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.” ~Carl Jung “Arethusa”, oil on panel, 24”x36”, private collection. 🔴

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. But light reveals both truth and beauty.”~Seneca “Elephant heart plum”, oil on panel, 6”x8”, private collection. 🔴

“Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos … an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.” — Saul Bellow “Study of Jade”, oil on panel, 12”x12”, private collection.

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” ~Paul Cézanne “Figure with Shawl”, oil on panel, 30”x30”, private collection.

“I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” ~Emily Carr “Laura, Stool”, oil on panel, 48”x36”, private collection.🔴

“True love will find you in the end You’ll find out just who was your friend Don’t be sad, I know you will But don’t give up until True love will find you in the end” ~Daniel Johnston “Shadow Portrait”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, private collection. 🔴

“If the reality of our life has become an unsettling arabesque puzzle & we still want to add more filigree embroidery to it …we might … lose the final thread …be expelled to the edge of delusion …dance on the brim of chaos.”~Erik Pevernagie “Filigree”, oil, 18”x24”, available via @pontonegallery.

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Calm”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, available. 🟢 Please contact me with any questions about purchasing this piece.

Rubenesque moon, jumpin’ the tracks and ancestral family vault, Hamilton, ON. 🇨🇦♥️

“I have climbed into the belfry of my mind and rung the bell until the echoes answered back.” ~Sylvia Plath “Bruges Belfry”, oil on panel, 24”x18”, private collection, Delaware. 🔴

Happy Friday to you :) Here’s “A Quiet Place” & an inadvertent Batman on my palette..🦇🎨 Just over 3 months til the @LAArtShow! I’ll be there with brand new unseen work at Pontone Gallery’s booth. January 7-11,2026. “A Quiet Place”, oil, 36”x36”, priv collection.🔴

“The room was a world within a world, a pocket of time where the dead and the living spoke together.”~Truman Capote, ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms. Where you lay waiting”,oil, 30”x40”, private coll. “Morning Sun, Almonte”,oil, 6”x4”, private coll. “Other Voices, Other Rooms”,oil 30”x24”, priv coll.

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity….something like a comforting influence, a mental balm.”~Henri Matisse “A great comfort”, oil on panel, 36”x36”, private collection. 🔴

When your art is living its best life. 🥰 Had a wonderful photoshoot yesterday with my friend Gayle who I’ve painted probably 20 times over the years. Can’t wait to see what this calm and colourful session yields on the easel!

I love the different quality and intensity of light at different places in the world. Different latitudes and architecture dance with light in different ways. The most beautiful grey skies I’ve ever seen are in two places: Newfoundland and London. 🩶 “Ann, Richmond”, 15”x30”, private collection.🔴

“On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – ‘It is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.” ~Gavin Maxwell, ‘Ring of Bright Water’ “Mijbil”, oil on panel, 16”x16”, private collection, Burlington, Ontario. 🔴

“On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – ‘It is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.” ~Gavin Maxwell, ‘Ring of Bright Water’ “Mijbil”, oil on panel, 16”x16”, private collection, Burlington, Ontario. 🔴

I’m working hard towards the @laartshow in January 2026 with @pontonegallery…lots of new paintings will be there and I hope you will too! The show runs from January 7-12,2026 at the LA Convention Center! Here are some recent palette pics of paint being pushed around as the pieces coalesce..

“In truth, the work itself is an adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is all about.”~Mary Oliver “I Dreamt Music”, oil, 20”x16”, private collection. 🔴

“In creative work-creative work of all kinds-those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary.”-Mary Oliver, from ‘Of Power & Time’. “Cabinet”, oil on canvas, 20”x16”, private collection.

“Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in and no one watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to but not necessarily have at once.”~Mary Oliver “Work in progress”, oil, 20”x16”, private coll. 🔴

“But Lí Ban east and west shall swim Long ages on the ocean’s rim, By mystic shores and islets dim, And down in the deep sea cave!” ~Sir Samuel Ferguson “Lí Ban”, oil on panel. 9”x12”, oil on panel, private collection. 🔴

I every painting I feel as though I’m falling or floating. “SW Coast Path, Mawgan Porth”, oil on panel, 15.5”x23” and “Mawgan Porth”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, private collection. 🔴

“The alchemical image is never an invention of the imagination; it is always a symbol in the true sense.” ~Carl Jung “The Alchemist”, oil on canvas, 36”x24”, private collection🔴.

“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.” ~Thích Nhất Hạnh “Kerri, Aware”, oil on canvas, 18”x36”, now lives on the surface of the moon as part of the Windrift collection on board #TheLunarCodex, which still blows my mind when I think I about it. 🌕🚀

“Witness this earth, witness this heaven and the down‑dropping water of the Styx.”~Hesiod And sold! 🔴 “Into the Styx”, oil on canvas, 36”x18”, has a new forever home on Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies. The silence of the night proclaims their presence with a stillness that fills the heart.” ~Rabindranath Tagore “Jeanine, poised”, oil on panel, 12”x12”, private collection. 🔴

I was looking for three paintings to post today that give me hope. I’ve been dealing with what turns out to be Long Covid, with underlying Dysautonomia & likely ME/CFS/hEDS. It’s been a weird & challenging few months since being very ill with Covid in April. I’m thankful to have wonderful support