Travel-Inspired Art

Making Your Mark

Have you ever put your name or initials somewhere you shouldn’t have? When I was young, I liked to carve my initials into things – I can recall a few […]

Sketches & Mini's

The Doors of Portugal – Part One

Back from 3 weeks of travel, my Camera Roll is bursting with new subjects for paintings. And some favourite subjects for paintings, like doors, doors and more doors! I can’t […]

Travel-Inspired Art

My Julia Roberts Moment

Have you ever tried to recreate a favourite movie moment? In recent memory, I believe that I’ve done it only once – in the autumn of 2016 in Florence. My […]

Sketches & Mini's

Portovenere Poetry

…and now, fair Italy! ⁠Thou art the Garden of the World, the Home ⁠Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; ⁠Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? […]

Travel-Inspired Art

A Corking Good Bike

I’m a sucker for a decorative bicycle! Put a colourful bike in front of a shop or a restaurant, and dress it up with baskets or flowers, and I will […]

Sketches & Mini's

Women Wandering

She was free in her wilderness She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. – Roman Payne (“The Wanderess”) To celebrate a milestone birthday a few years back, I […]

Travel-Inspired Art

L’amore di La Morra

Lovers of Italian red wine will know the town of La Morra in the Piemonte region, famous for its Barolo and Barbera varietals. But if you don’t fancy wine, is […]

Sketches & Mini's

Tuscan’t Help Myself… Part 2

I love a good story and Tuscany is full of them! My latest Tuscan miniature painting is set at the site of a fantastic one! In the 12th-century, a wealthy […]

Sketches & Mini's

Doing The Laundry, Venice-Style

Doing the laundry is not one of my favourite chores. Seeing laundry flapping in the wind on an outdoor clothesline, however… is one of my favourite images. Taking in frozen […]

Travel-Inspired Art

Taking A Break On An Italian Ridge

Doesn’t a February break in the towns of the Cinque Terre, Italy sound good? Last February, I held my break in Riomaggiore. This February, I selected Corniglia as my town […]

Travel-Inspired Art

While Visions of Red Wine Danced in Her Head

Maybe it’s all the holiday get-togethers… Or maybe it’s the cold weather upon us in Canada… My thoughts have turned to red wine! I don’t drink a lot of it […]

My Art

The Better Angels of Our Nature This Holiday… And Every Day

This year more than any other, the concept of “the […]

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Art We Wonderful

creating my way thru the world

Travel-Inspired Art

Making Your Mark

The Doors of Portugal – Part One

My Julia Roberts Moment

Portovenere Poetry

A Corking Good Bike

Women Wandering

L’amore di La Morra

Tuscan’t Help Myself… Part 2

Doing The Laundry, Venice-Style

Taking A Break On An Italian Ridge

While Visions of Red Wine Danced in Her Head

The Better Angels of Our Nature This Holiday… And Every Day