Channelling Glamour In Portofino
On my first visit to Portofino, I walked up to Castello Brown above the harbour to see a photography exhibit, featuring many Hollywood stars of the 50s and 60s that […]
My Cinque Terre Recipe
Do you have a place that no matter how many times you visit, it never fails to move you in some way? The Cinque Terre region of Italy is one […]
Bright Lights Nostalgia
A few months ago I went on a hunt in Toronto for “ghost signs” – those painted advertisements on the sides of buildings from the first half of the 1900’s […]
Christmas Morning In The Piazza
This past Christmas, a dream of mine came true! I spent Christmas in Rome. I’ve been to Italy many times but in the warmer seasons. I’ve watched the holiday traditions […]
A Portuguese Mash-Up
What’s your preference – EVERYTHING matches or NOTHING matches? Most of the time my preference leans toward nothing matching. I really like different styles, opinions, expressions and tastes – you’ll […]
Standing The Silly-Test Of Time
Have you travelled somewhere and decades later it still comes up in conversation at least once a week? Maybe it was exquisitely beautiful or you had a most happy memory […]
Travel WITH Friends, Travel TO Friends
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. -Tim Cahill Over the last few weeks, I’ve been curating my miniature paintings for my first solo show, looking for […]
The Personality of Buildings
For my latest two miniature paintings, I’ve been wooed by buildings with very distinctive personalities! A few years ago, we visited the village of Saint-Paul de Vence outside Nice, France […]
Positano Bites Deep
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. – John Steinbeck Wow, that has […]
Better Days Behind or Ahead?
I could see this door from quite a distance. The bright red-orange popped against the black painted building. As an avid door lover, I rushed toward it, and when I […]
Tuscan’t Help Myself!
Do you most often travel to new places or to your favourites? On a recent podcast of The Bittersweet Life, the hosts discussed a traveller’s inclination to revisit the same […]
Going Door-Crazy For The First Time
If you look at my travel photos prior to 2008, there are no photos of doors – hard to believe from an artist that has painted so many! There are […]
