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Not a painting or a sketch though I would love to draw it or as a woodcut. Just walking up the Don Valley hillside this ...
18/03/2026

Not a painting or a sketch though I would love to draw it or as a woodcut. Just walking up the Don Valley hillside this morning with certain canine companions, and the snow left on the hill had a beautiful windswept pattern to it. Couldn’t resist….

This is the piece accepted into Gallery 1313 show called ‘Visiting the Landscape’. This particular scene was based on a ...
18/03/2026

This is the piece accepted into Gallery 1313 show called ‘Visiting the Landscape’. This particular scene was based on a cold winter night walking through one of Toronto’s back lane ways. I often find these spaces as interesting as the main streets beside them. For me, it’s like going to an exhibit of a well known painter, but focusing on the simple early pencil sketch’s as opposed to the public face of the finished paintings.
And I suppose that this can best be described as an urban landscape. It does include a tree….

Excited to have had one of my sketches accepted to be a part of the new show ‘Visiting the Landscape’ at Gallery 1313 in...
18/03/2026

Excited to have had one of my sketches accepted to be a part of the new show ‘Visiting the Landscape’ at Gallery 1313 in Toronto from March 18-29.
Also really happy to have the company of good friend and fellow architect/artist Barbara Miszkiel showing two paintings in the same show.

Excited to have had one of my sketches accepted to be part of the new show ‘Visiting the Landscape’ at Gallery 1313 in T...
18/03/2026

Excited to have had one of my sketches accepted to be part of the new show ‘Visiting the Landscape’ at Gallery 1313 in Toronto, March 18-29. The work is of a wintry back laneway, an urban landscape. And yes, it does include a tree!

We went on a week long hike through the Cotswolds in England last fall and this view of the stone farmhouse nestled into...
25/02/2026

We went on a week long hike through the Cotswolds in England last fall and this view of the stone farmhouse nestled into the hills really seemed such a beautiful representation of our entire walk. I knew that I would eventually draw this scene and wanted to give it a graphic illustration feel as a study for a future woodcut print.

A back alley that I walked by recently in Toronto, just before the massive snowstorm we had. I should have gone back to ...
04/02/2026

A back alley that I walked by recently in Toronto, just before the massive snowstorm we had. I should have gone back to draw the aftermath in the same location. Not sure why I like to draw this type of scene so much but I love the perspective view and the real personality of the neighbourhoods that seems to come through.

The Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral from our trip to Reykjavik Iceland last fall. Only finished in 1986, it is the second tall...
26/01/2026

The Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral from our trip to Reykjavik Iceland last fall. Only finished in 1986, it is the second tallest building in Iceland and its powerful shape has become an important and iconic symbol for the city. All of my long walks around Reykjavik always used this building as my reference point to figure out where I was.

We were walking between trains along the platform at Paddington Station in London a couple of weeks ago and I was so tak...
11/11/2025

We were walking between trains along the platform at Paddington Station in London a couple of weeks ago and I was so taken by the amazing structure above me that I took a photo as we wheeled our bags along with the crowd. Hard to believe that the main part of this station was built around 1854. The overall space is incredible, but once again, I wanted to focus in on a smaller area of the abstract, yet still very ordered, pattern of the steel archways. I also knew that I was soon going to have many hours on our return flight to Canada and wanted something sufficiently detailed to work on to keep me away from all the inflight movies. Perhaps not such a great choice of view to draw with all the turbulence we experienced.

Very excited to be a part of the juried 2025 Aird Gallery Drawing Show. I had a pen sketch accepted that was based on a ...
16/09/2025

Very excited to be a part of the juried 2025 Aird Gallery Drawing Show. I had a pen sketch accepted that was based on a hike along the dunes on the shore of the North Sea in The Netherlands with my daughter last year. I am also thrilled to be a part of this show with my son Cameron and good friend Mark Sterling. Even if I don’t see a name beside their works, I can always tell that they were the artists!

Snuck out for one last quick sketch from my canoe before heading back to Toronto. I wasn’t in my favourite cedar strip b...
03/09/2025

Snuck out for one last quick sketch from my canoe before heading back to Toronto. I wasn’t in my favourite cedar strip boat but that thing is so damned heavy to move up and down the hill compared to this Kevlar!

My first sketch from the canoe this summer, and once again I could never get the anchor in the right place to stop the w...
11/08/2025

My first sketch from the canoe this summer, and once again I could never get the anchor in the right place to stop the wind from blowing me so I was looking at the opposite view. At least I had Luna to keep me company and to remind me when it was time to paddle back home.

My first print attempt of this woodcut I made from a slide I took 45 years ago in Quebec City. Still a work in progress ...
23/07/2025

My first print attempt of this woodcut I made from a slide I took 45 years ago in Quebec City. Still a work in progress and maybe next time I’ll remember to reverse image my sketch on the wood panel so it ends up looking like the real street view. Then again, accuracy is not exactly the game plan here anyhow…

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