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Well that was exhausting. Last weekend (May 2-3) I participated as a guest artist on the Scugog Studio Tour. As a guest artist I was an invited to show alongside the host in her studio as well as with one other guest artist. The tour organizers appear to vary the media on offer at each…
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All this week has been ramping up towards guesting on the Scugog Studio Tour this weekend. I’ve been frantically framing some final works, including today’s feature image of Port Perry, as well as collecting packing materials to get them there safely, organizing price lists, acquiring boxes for the giclees, running off draw forms (at each…
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Its a big day here. My first monograph is being delivered this afternoon. The 58th Annual Oshawa Art Association show opens tonight, of which I have a painting in this group show of about 90 Durham, Region Artists. And I need to make significant progress on a larger Port Perry painting (24″ x 24″) for…
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Ah, so close. Art competitions are a way to get your work out there. In the open category, for artists aged 55+, I came second today at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Always great to see one’s work in an established gallery. Of course, these opportunities are a way to reach out to the…
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It wasn’t long after signing up with my local art association that I got a call for entry from the Station Gallery in Whitby. “Great,” I thought, this would be a chance to show locally. “How much time do I have?” It was Tuesday. The deadline to submit on-line a digital image and form was…
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Is there such a thing as a re-emerging artist? In the early 1980s I was showing at two downtown Ottawa galleries, one of them embedded in the Simpson’s Department Store. At the time I was creating work using technical pens and prismacolor pencils. Much of it involved mind-numbing little dots on the page that resolved…
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