I Remember

" I Remember"
10x10" acrylic on cradled panel

This is Remembrance season. 

As I remember, I paint poppies - and give thanks for those who served and continue to serve.

The Consolation of Sunflowers

"The Consolation of Sunflowers"
24"x 36"
acrylic on gallery cradled panel

St Lawrence College is hosting an online virtual art show entitled "Wish You Were Here." I entered this large painting along with 2 mixed media pieces. Voting is requested from the public for your favourite painting(s) and is now open. Here is the link:  https://www.mariannevansilfhoutgallery.ca/ 

Throughout this pandemic nature has become very dear to me. I have been exploring my own backyard as I weather the Covid-19 realities. This has become a place of safety and great solace in the midst of times of isolation. Nature has given me new lenses to view and process this weird season. This painting of sunflowers, indeed, offered great consolation.

 

Garden Offerings: Pinwheel Sunflowers

"Pinwheel Sunflowers"
5x8 mixed media on paper

It's officially Autumn: breezy, cool, and oh, so colourful!

Garden Offerings

"Bee Balm 2"
5x8"mixed media on paper

"Little Sombrero"
5x8 mixed media on paper

"Seeds & Grasses"
5x8 mixed media on paper
SOLD

The gardens and meadows continue to inspire with blooms, both vibrant and faded. 

Garden Offerings

"Bee Balm Sparklers"
5x8" mixed media on paper

"Bee Balm 1"
5x8" mixed media on paper

"Coneflowers"
5x8" mixed media on paper

I took a break from the Isolation Series to paint some of my garden offerings. These garden flowers, along with the vegetables I've grown, have been a wonderful diversion from Covid-19 realities and isolation. 

 

Flowers for February

6x8 acrylic on cradled panel

On this day of celebrating love I offer up some flowers...

Poppy Uprising

2'x3' acrylic on cradled panel

A large work completed and submitted to the Alumni show at St. Lawrence College, Brockville. "SEEING RED".

Floriated

6x12 Acrylic on cradled gallery panel

Once again green and growing things hold my creative interest. I'm on a flower role again - poppies, no less! I'm continuously thinking up new ways to capture them.

SOLD A Thing for Poppies

16x16 Acrylic on cradled panel

A recent submission to the 10th Annual Juried Exhibition held at the Marianne van Silfhout Gallery at St Lawrence College, Brockville, ON.

Lots of painting has been happening, just not a lot of uploading. I've been on a poppy kick when it comes to flowers. Inspiration has come from stunning specimens growing in my neighbourhood. Wildflowers, grasses, poppies...they make me feel creative just by looking.

Time to Repot SOLD

SOLD 8x10 acrylic on cradled panel

Flowers on a Restaurant Table

8x10 acrylic on cradled panel

Grass Flowers

Acrylic on cradled panel 16"x16"

These days I'm waiting for spring to merge into summer. It has been a long, cold, grey, and wet season to date. So it is no wonder I've turned my imagination to flowers. I want to see colour amidst the green!
Grass Flowers will be featured in an art show this wknd in Burritts Rapids, ON, along with some other new "wild" flower works. Come check it out!
June 9 6-9pm June 10 10am-5pm & June 11 10am-4pm. Burritts Rapids Community Hall.

Late Bloomers...Blue Bloomers

Late Bloomers - 6x6 acrylic on cradled panel
Currently hanging at Arts Underground, Whitehorse YT

SOLD - Blue Bloomers - 6x6 acrylic on cradled panel

A couple of last minute pieces - aptly named 'late bloomers'. Sometimes I think a show is all wrapped up and wham! -  another creation tempts my imagination. For these latest works I've been painting on gold painted panels - letting the process birth the ideas. Totally fun!

Soda Pop Poppies & Sunflower Sauce

6x12 acrylic on cradled panel

SOLD 6x12 acrylic on cradled panel

The Manotick Art Association is hosting its annual Spring Show & Sale this wknd. This pair will be in the show along with hundreds of other works by other talented artists.

Painting Wildflowers

A Craving for Poppies
10x10 Acrylic on cradled panel

A Daisy a Day
10x10 Acrylic on cradled panel

Pass Me the Fireweed SOLD
10x10 Acrylic on cradled panel

These paintings were created for the YAS members show entitled "In the Kitchen, On the Table"
It has been a while since I've done any still life's. Creating this trio was a lot of fun, a spontaneous "let's see where this takes me" act. There's lots of shimmery gold in these pieces!

Spring Irises - SOLD

Painted with a palette knife.

Spring Tulips - SOLD

Working with a palette knife.