Painting and Pondering

When I did some research into what Pre-Raphaelite paintings I might be able to find in Oxford, one jumped out as a “must see”. It’s a piece I’ve admired from high school, and I’ve never seen the original (because it’s hiding in a chapel in Oxford!). The painting is called …

This is the first post of several about a trip I recently made to Oxford, England. For some reason I’d never visited Oxford before, despite the fact that my mum and dad, and one of my uncles, studied there (my mum studied fine art). I had to make a trip …

Before I moved to Canada, I hadn’t really heard of the Group of Seven. Come to think of it, I’m not really sure where I did first hear about them, but whenever it was, I became a fan of Tom Thomson’s work. While my own work is very detailed and …

Have you bought anything in the Black Friday sales? Usually my husband and I get excited and optimistic about being able to buy a few things we’ve been wanting to get, only to discover nothing we’re looking for is actually on sale. Similar things happened this year when it came …

I have found myself thinking about this quite a lot, in a roundabout sort of way, and this evening it felt like it distilled down into some kind of essence, so I wanted to write about it. I have also been meaning to get back to writing this blog, so …

Although early March seems soon to be saying this, the snow is rapidly melting. Now that doesn’t mean we won’t get another dump of snow before Spring proper arrives (I’d be surprised if we didn’t) but, just in case, I spent some time last week taking lots of reference photos …