Water colour - Journal sketch

BIG hair! I am a girl of the 80’s after all. ;)

I am obsessed with stars!

I love to watch the slow release of the fiddle heads as they unfurl into luscious, long leafed ferns.

We are all made of stars - Shining bright explosions of light.

Keeping the flow going with these journal sketches!

Adding in the Trillium flowers is what this piece was waiting for!

These wildflowers are a sign that Spring has arrived and I am reminded that we too are always changing. Like the seasons, there is always a familiar thread, but nothing is ever exactly as it was.

Escape to another world, where the tides draw your path and stars bring you light--where magic tells a story, delivering delight.

Every day I walk the forest trails and walk away bursting with images and colours of imagined worlds infused by magical energy and a view into the spiritual realm. For me the forest is alive with inspiration and I am grateful to have it at my side. I hope you are finding hidden joys in your days.

Nature + Me = JOY!

With added free time lately, I’ve been researching my next get away. I’ve always been drawn to the red rock and big skies of Arizona. I’ve never been, but I dream of this place.

This was drawn after a particularly windy, ocean front walk. I live in BC Canada, along Indian Arm where the river meets the sea. Skunk weed wafts a comforting stench, salmon come home to spawn and the tall grasses flow limp on the wind. I Love where I live!

My daily hug awaits with this soaring BIG Maple. I touch the soft moss that covers it’s deeply grooved bark and close my eyes—travelling inside this grand beauty I feel grounded and connected.

This one excites me! I love my home. I take time to infuse this space with grateful energy and love, and in return, I feel safe to speak my truth, weep if I may, and create to my imaginations content. I’ve never really spent much time painting interiors, but after finishing this one, the feeling I was left with insists that I continue on this journey.

After sharing this on Social Media, I received a commission to paint a dear friends home interior, a sign that the Universe agrees. Gotta follow those signs! xx

$450 - Framed

Adding in the Trillium flowers is what this piece was waiting for!

These wildflowers are a sign that Spring has arrived and I am reminded that we too are always changing. Like the seasons, there is always a familiar thread, but nothing is ever exactly as it was.

12x16 acrylic on canvas board

$450 framed

I often have images flash into my thoughts. Sometimes I write them down, sometimes they just stick at the front of my mind until I do something with them.

This painting was a mixture of these sticky thoughts and some symbols of summer that bring me joy. Clear, starry nights, poppies in bloom, and the ever changing boardwalk landscape that lines Shoreline Park in Port Moody, where I live.

16x16” x2” acrylic on canvas $ 450

Maybe we are all made of the stars…

12x16” Acrylic on canvas board ~ $450, framed

Translated from the PNW Chinook Peoples, ‘Klahanie’ means ‘Great outdoors’. And it is!!

We recently discovered a family of beavers have moved into the neighbourhood! Canadian community through and through.

PRINTS AVAILABLE @ $25.00 each contact me via website or instagram.

12x16” Acrylic on canvas board $450 framed

This painting was a stream of consciousness. It's much different than when I first started it. I think it found itself.

24"x24" -Acrylic on Canvas NFS

Outside of my studio, there is this lovely old tree. It stands on the edges of a plot of cleared land - soon to be industrialized. But it stands firm and strong, rooted to the earth - connected to the moon's light.

My great respect for this tree's dedication to it's true bliss inspired me to give it a gift. A heart, painted from my heart. I really just wanted to stare at it all day - and what better way...

I hope they let it stand here forever.

16x24 NFS

This was the inspiration for a Children's Chapter book I am in the process of writing.

Estimated date of completion June 2017 - stay tuned!

30 x 30 x 2 inches $550

Painted on Canvas 2006

The city lurks under the canopy of this grand tree - it's leaves digest pieces of the industrial world beneath it. A nest sits on a branch; inside, rests a Cuban postage stamp - ready to fly & meant to be free.

24 x 24" Acrylic on Canvas 

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24 x 24 x 2" Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 x 2"  Acrylic on Canvas

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18 x 30" framed / Acrylic on Canvas

$600 framed

The noise from the city streams overhead, it has it's beauty - but for now, joy is found hovering below this noise - wrapped in the energy of home. Sanctuary.

I heart PM.

16x16x2 inches painted on canvas ~$300

~Just before twilight breaks the blue

My sweetest thoughts breeze by

Rolling on the meadow hills

Towards the horizon

Where you wait for me

For the briefest of moments

Before you must light another sky.

16 x 16 inches painted on canvas $300

Waves of shadows shy the sky

But I care not for the coy

I see the bold and the brightest stars

Only

They paint my soul

They are true and everlasting.

All of me, I give to the stars

Forever and always.

‘You saw me’ 10x10x2 - $150

I screamed as loud as I could

screeching colours and beauty

how could you pass me by

are you deaf - i wondered

Are you blind?

But you saw me - we touched

I felt you ~

‘My little bird’ ~ 10x10x2 $ 150

Be still - over there

I cannot hold you

But I am happy to see you

Over there.

I bring my bloom

For you -

please - be still

So I can see you, always.

24 x 24 Acrylic on Canvas

The one from the time I went

to the place - over there

Is missing 

From my life.

I went away - and I am over here 

Now.

I need, I want

Now I feel.

8x8 on wood panel  - in private collection

12x12

Acrylic & charcoal on wood panel

12x12

Acrylic and charcoal on wood panel

SOLD - thank you

6 x 6 inch painted on wood panel

24x24 inch painted on canvas

Nature Vs. Industry Series

Looking for food, a Polar Bear family treks endlessly through new territory. The 'cardboard cut-out' appearance they portray shows they don't belong here. The trees have geometric shapes on them, showing that industry is on the verge of take over and the trees will soon lose there ground.

Acrylic  24 x24 x2"

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16 x 16" Acrylic on Canvas

12x 12 inch painted on wood panel

In Private collection.

12 x 12 inch - painted on wood panel

16 x 16 painted on wood panel

SOLD

16 x 16 inches painted on wood panel

SOLD

24 x 24 inches painted on canvas

SOLD

12 x 16 inches painted on canvas

the ever-changing artwork is blue for now...

Acrylic & Ink

12x16 on canvas board - $350

Framed - $425

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

on paper SOLD

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

6x8 water colour

16 x 24

Watercolour on paper

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16x24

Watercolour on paper

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11x14 water colour

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16x24 water colour

16 x 24

Water colour on paper

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9x12

Water colour on paper

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16x24

Water colour on Paer

16 x 24

Water colour on Paper

16 x 24

Water colour on Paper

16 x 24

Watercolour on paper

16x24

Water colour on paper

In Private collection

16 x 24

Water colour on Paper

In Private Collection

alcohol ink & acrylic ink

Framed - $550

11x14 Ink

$325 framed

11x14 ink

$325. framed

11x14 ink

$325 framed

6x12 “. Gallery framed @ 10x16”

ink

$300 framed

6x12” gallery framed @ 10x16”

ink on paper

$300 framed

A prelim Illustration of Little O.  He has a heart shaped saddle--good for spreading love as he flutters away, chasing the tickling bubbles.

This is a prelim drawing for my book, 'The BIG Adventures of Little O'. Lutris is a curious otter who helps Little O look for food.

The great blue heron. Another prelim look at Ardia, a heron who helps Little O get untangled.