View fullsize The Given 9x12” analog collage/found papers The art of what’s given…. Made from papers I gathered in Berlin and shaped through a process of responding rather than planning. I’m simply working with what presents itself,
View fullsize Infected 9x12” Analog collage w found papers(Berlin) We don’t choose every influence that shapes us. And sometimes, an experience lodges itself in our subconscious and keeps working away beneath the surface until it appears in the studio
View fullsize Stripped Down 9x12” analog collage (Berlin found papers) What began as typography gradually became something else. The words started to matter less for what they said and more for how they occupied the surface…. especially with this mo
View fullsize Only Echoes Remain Analog Collage 10x12” (But reimagined in larger scale) Another new piece from the loads of material gathered in Berlin. I’m still finding my groove after returning home, and still listening to what the city left behin
View fullsize Collage? No. This is my big beautiful sink in the studio. When the studio/house was built 20 years ago, I asked for a custom made sink that would comfortably soak my treasured printmaking papers… who knew that one day I would be roaming the st
View fullsize Well I am back in the studio after 3 weeks in Berlin, part of which included a collage residency with Contemporary Collage Magazine founder Les Jones, Cecil Touchon, Justine Laeufer and a talented group of international artists. There’s alway
View fullsize Drizzly day in Berlin means great gallery day! A few highlights from mies van der rohe’s Neue national gallery… a little bit of everything for all my artsy friends to enjoy. #berlin #neuenationalgalerie #art #gallerhoppinginberlin
View fullsize During our one day collage pop-up exhibition to close our residency with #contemporarycollagemagazine in Berlin, we were visited by a number of other collage enthusiasts from the Berlinage Collage Festival. As a result, two more pieces were sold to
View fullsize Last weekend in Kreusberg, we ended our #contemporarycollagemagazine Collage Expedition with a one day pop/up exhibition Berlin style…. Put up posters and arrows everywhere including sidewalks and they will come!! We had a fantastic turnout o
View fullsize So last week during my collage residency in Berlin, the whole idea was to absorb the sights, sounds and materials we encounter and see what comes out. This beautiful little church I passed each day. Later in the week these two pieces just happened. C
View fullsize Happy World Collage Day!! And what better way to celebrate it by making collages in Berlin! Also last night, at an event in Winnipeg this book assemblage titled Echoes of a Past, received the Bev Morton/Wayne Arthur Gallery Award. Thank you to the MS
View fullsize If you are an artist who loves COLLAGE and lives in or around Berlin this is your lucky weekend! Come meet myself, other collage artists from around the world and THE founder of Contemporary Collage Magazine Les Brown and renown collage artist Cecil
View fullsize Well although I arrived a few days earlier, today was Day 1 for the collage residency in Berlin. The first few days were spent hunting and gathering materials from the streets, flea markets and vintage stores in Berlin. But today we hit the studio, s
View fullsize In a few weeks I am off again on another Collage adventure to Berlin with #contemporarycollagemagazine and a group of international collage artists! As we did in London last year, the week-long residency has a very simple concept. Each artist arrive
View fullsize There’s a moment when everything stops pushing and simply rests… time to let go and breathe. Exhaling 18x1 4” book collage on canvas #collage #bookcollage #exhaling #contemporarycollageart #canadiancontemporaryart
View fullsize Echoes of a Past 18x14” Book collage/fragments/canvas Fragments of what was still speak, though differently in this moment. In the tension between colour and darkness, something shifts- and we simply keep going. DM if interested. #bookcollag
View fullsize Back into the book scraps bin this weekend… and, the ongoing exploration of restraint and material. Book fragments becoming a language I return to - what remains, what softens, what stays? And with spring close, there’s an urge for some
View fullsize A small meditation to end the week … on restraint, balance and the value of staying thoughtful in unsettled times. Sometimes clarity comes not from pushing forward, but from simply holding space and allowing things to settle. 🤞✌️❤️ The Art o
View fullsize You know that old saying about one person’s trash … so I’ve been spring cleaning the studio for two weeks 😳, that’s right… all work and no play! I have been ruthless, purging, cleaning … until yesterday. I ne
View fullsize I guess my week wasn’t quite over, or considering it is Sunday some may look at this as being the start of a new week…. Either way it is still a hard … No. 9x12” in framed (12x15,framed) analog collage (found papers, wpg)