I am planning on doing two specific paintings for the Bearclaw Gallery in Edmonton. I have been working on a number of portraits lately and have found them interesting to work on.
I was recently in Australia - I work with the Canada Council for the Arts as a program officer in the visual arts section. I was in Australia as a coordinator for a program which brought Canadian Aboriginal curators to the 2008 Sydney Biennale. This was a great opportunity for them and I was quite happy to see it work so well. The people at the Canadian Consulate Office and the Sydney Biennale were very helpful in making the visit by the curators a success. I also had time to go to Darwin to check on the art scene there. This picture is a self portrait taken at the Darwin Botanical Gardens. I hope to do a number of portraits in the future - not all of me of course, but some of people I know and some from research on the web.
Since I have started to work full time as a government employee my painting and writing has suffered as I find it quite difficult at my age to do what I used to do when I was in my twenties. So new work is rare - I only paint about 15 - 20 paintings a year and I only write a handful of poems. But it is nice having a paycheck every two weeks - so I think I will stick with the job and paint when my energy level allows it. Click the link below to see my more recent work and click the archive link to see past work. GALLERY ARCHIVES
I am working poetry more than painting as it is an easier medium to work at, just sit down at the computer and start pecking out words. To check out what I have been doing just click the link below.
My resume is available if you wish to see it, I try to keep it updated every year. I am behind at the time of this web page but will soon be caught up.
