“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

The different stages of “Self portrait, Shieldmaiden”, oil on panel, 8”x8”, private collection. 🩶🛡️🗡️

Everything is ever aswirl; colour, life, sleep, and light joins it all. “Figure, curled”, oil on panel, 36”x36”, private collection and “Deconstructed Palette”, oil on panel, 12”x16”, private collection. 🩵

I love painting skies that you could fall up into, land light & full with yesterday & tomorrow. I can remember the wind and fresh air of Newfoundland. “Shoal Brook”, “Return to Farewell” & “Wesleyville”, all oil, 2 in private colls, & one is in the coll of the Canadian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. 🔴

This painting was conceived of when my father was about to undergo a major surgery The grace & trust he granted me to see his humanity & paint it in the face of his diminishing returns are things I am truly grateful for. He saw the art above all else. “Father, Hospital”, oil,10”x10”, priv coll.🔴.

Across the pond in SoHo dear friends stopped into Pontone Gallery & hung out with “Occlusion” and “Transome”. 🥳 Both paintings are oil on panel, & both are available. Cheers to the joy of art & friends! pontonegallery.com/artists/189-...

Here’s a clue as to what’s happening in the studio! I love surprises (and hope you do too). I’ll share more info soon!

“Paths from Wisdom”, oil on panel, 12”x9”, private collection, and “Paths to Wisdom”, oil on panel, 4”x4”, private collection. 🔴 These two paintings are inextricably connected by the gossamer thread which is the universe. They live in separate collections but are forever entwined. ♾️❤️‍🔥

“There are days when I feel suspended in light, weightless in the space between myself and the world.”~Sylvia Plath “Self portrait, floating”, oil on panel, 20”x16”, private collection. 🔴

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”~Terry Pratchett “The Neighbour”, oil on linen, 8”x10”, collection of the artist.🔴

“I remember sky It was blue as ink Or at least I think I remember sky I remember snow Soft as feathers Sharp as thumb tacks Coming down like lint..” -Stephen Sondheim, “Evening Primrose” “The Rasberry House”, oil on canvas, 15”x30”, private collection. 🔴

“…Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.”~William Shakespeare “The Quiet Place”, oil on panel, 48”x48”, private collection, Delaware.🔴

Have paints & patient friends, will travel:) Repaired “8th Concession” today that had been damaged during shipping a few months ago. I think it turned out well! Thank you Mia, Havoc and Phantom for your love and magic! ♥️

“Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” ~Paul Gauguin “The Chameleon”, oil, 30”x30”, private collection, Malibu, CA.🔴

“Character is what you are in the dark.”~Buckaroo Banzai “The Porpoise”, oil on panel, 48”x 24”, private collection, Yukon, Canada.🔴

I feel a deep affection for chipped and flaking paint. My childhood home is gone, but this painting names the years, and I love its impermanence. “Childhood bedroom, redux”, oil on canvas, 30”x30”, collection of the artist. 🔴

“I need the sea because it teaches me.”~Pablo Neruda “Looking North to The Labrador Sea”, oil on panel, 12”x6”, available @ Abbozzo Gallery. abbozzogallery.com/heather-hort...

“In every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is a story of the Earth.” ~Rachel Carson, ‘The Edge of the Sea’ “Columbia”, oil on panel, 40”x30”, priv coll,Southampton,NY.🔴

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” ~Albert Einstein “Ann, Lock and Weir”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, probate collection, Delaware. 🔴

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin “Occlusion”, oil on panel, 16”x16”, available via Pontone Gallery.🟢 This stained glass series is like painting water on land…🩵🌊 pontonegallery.com/artworks/202...

Our work, our art, is an ode to what and whom is magical in this world. Thank you Amy for your pixie dust! 💗 “Amy”, oil on panel, 18”x6”, private collection. 🔴

From the #Newfoundland series, these berries were picked by lovely neighbours next to cabin where I was staying. Each ruddy board of that porch held the memory of its former life & these little warm suns were perfect in the fullness of their waiting. “Marshberries”, oil, 16”x20, priv coll. 🔴

“She is a wildling, a child of the forest, with leaves in her hair and stars in her eyes.”~Nikita Gill “The Changeling”, oil on canvas, 18”x36”,’ private collection. 🔴

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Chrysalis”, oil on panel, 60”x40”, collection of the artist. 🔴

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.” ~Louise Glück “The Crucible”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, private collection, Germany.🔴

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, & nothing in the end can stand against it.” ~Margaret Atwood “Danielle, treading”,48”x48”,priv coll.🔴

Happy Canada Day Part 3: “Clothesline, Fogo Island”, “Gayle, Snowshoeing”, “David’s Studio, Sunset” & the Berrypicker, Greenspond”, all oil, all in private collections. 🔴 🇨🇦 pontonegallery.com/artists/189-...

Happy Canada Day part 2: 🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦 Lunch spot in Kluane National Park, Yukon. Hiking to Samuel Glacier near the Alaska Yukon Border. Sasha getting up close and personal to a wood bison near Muncho Lake, BC and a Sun Dog in Whitehorse.

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦 So thankful for this place, inspired, grateful and painting. I can’t wait to show you what I’m working on in the coming weeks! Here’s a Timelapse of Twillingate, Newfoundland :)

Sometimes the past visits you in the most serendipitous ways. Here are some paintings I submitted to Abbozzo Gallery at the end of art school to request representation. They accepted me right away :) All oil, all in private collections. 🔴 TY to collectors & supporters from then & now!

“Sleep is the most innocent creature, and I, corrupted, am unworthy of her.” ~Sylvia Plath There’s a sadness to insomnia. It’s time lost that can’t be reclaimed. It exists in its own realm. “Self portrait, smallest”, oil, 3”x4”, priv coll 🔴 and “Bed, After”, oil, 48”x36”, priv coll. 🔴

Here are some recent studio happenings! “Bifurcation”, oil on canvas, 20”x24”, available @abbozzogallery, a couple of photos from my satellite studio space (Sloth Ross abides) and sold! 🔴 “Light in the Piazza”, is going to her new forever home soon :)

New painting alert! “Light in the Piazza”, oil on panel, 5”x5”, available. A different illumination, similar to a painting I did years ago called “What Frida Taught Me”. ♥️ Lots is happening in the studio for the months ahead. I can’t wait to share more with you soon!

“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.” ~James Turrell “Ghosts in the Sun”, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, private collection. 🔴

“Bone-cracking cold that made my joints ache. Cold so relentless I felt it in my dreams. Ice floes. Lost expeditions. The lights of search planes swinging over whitecaps as I floundered alone in black Arctic seas.”~Donna Tartt “MER, Utqiagvik”, oil, 30”x60”, private collection,Whitehorse, Yukon.🔴

“The whole answer is there on the canvas.” ~Edward Hopper “Laura, Parkside”, oil on panel, 24”x48”, private collection. 🔴

“Nothing beats kindness… It sits quietly beyond all things.” This is many kinds of wonderful www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/27/t...

“I want to make paintings that look as if they happened, not as if they were made. Stillness is not the absence of motion, but the fullness of being.” ~Cy Twombly “A still life is no longer“The Huntley”, oil on panel, 24”x36”, private collection. 🔴