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80 Year-Old Lindsay: a source of courage
My granny in her 80s.The summer I turned 14 a neighbour gave me my first job. She started up a day camp for seniors—gathering up folk from retirement residences in a school bus and bringing them to a park for the day. My job was to set up a miniature golf course every...
Start a big foolish project
Every painting is a failure While I’m not an angsty tortured artist who destroys all their work, it is true that I’m never satisfied. I don’t experience this as a negative. My dissatisfaction actually excites me. It’s my fuel, the engine that drives me forward. I...
Nature is a dirty word: on language and belonging
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home,” Gary Snyder There are two words I find tricky to use when writing about my work—nature and landscape. Let’s start with nature The assumptions baked into our language around the natural world make me uneasy. There’s...
Power’s Out: 10 days of different
At the end of March the area I live in was hit hard by an ice storm. Over a million people lost power. Many were restored in a day or two. We were out for 10 days. No power, no running water. Sounds terrible, but we coped. We collected rainwater to fill our toilets....
Adventures in Colour: dyeing & density
My first dyeing experimentFirst the dyeing I hadn’t dyed anything since I tie-dyed a shirt at daycamp. But as I started scaling up my liquid acrylic experiments I wondered if dyeing could help. I love the colour harmonies I get when I use a coloured background. Lots...
Trying something new: reluctantly then enthusiastically
Things are a bit different around here these days. For the past couple of months I’ve been experimenting with liquid acrylics and raw canvas. This wasn’t something I particularly wanted to try. It was a technique someone suggested because it lends itself to my...
Doubt: maybe it’s helpful, essential even
workbench in my studio Last month’s blog post I made it all sound so easy and inevitable—how I’d bring an earthiness or groundedness into my work. I just reread that post and it made me laugh. It’s so neat and linear and upbeat. Right now upbeat is not the prevailing...
Dreaming of Mud: how I start new work
detail from Earth Star, mixed media collage As soon as one group of paintings are done I start wondering what’s next. Lately I find myself wishing for more earth, more grit into my work. This is an idea that comes from analysis, critique (by myself and others), and an...
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