by Lindsay | Jan 26, 2026 | inspiration, materials, studio
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...
by Lindsay | Sep 24, 2025 | inspiration, new work, studio
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...
by Lindsay | Aug 12, 2025 | inspiration, studio
“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...
by Lindsay | Apr 27, 2025 | inspiration, studio
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....
by Lindsay | Feb 14, 2025 | inspiration, materials, studio
My first dyeing experiment First 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...
by Lindsay | Jan 20, 2025 | inspiration, materials, studio
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...
