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Don’t buy my work
With the holiday season coming, I am tempted to come up with flashy ads about discounts, holiday themed works and to take advantage of the surge in needing to buy something to prove you love someone. Those e-newsletters have flooded my inbox. The name of my art business is however derived from a Latin term…
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The Fun of Reactions to My Paintings
The 2025 Queen West Art Crawl was a massive success! While I didn’t see as many old friends this year, I got to meet a lot of people and shared the stories behind my art. I always find it fascinating to see what sold well. What did people like? On my first day, it seemed…
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Commissioned art and the saleability of art
In the past, I’ve turned down commissioned work requests. It struck me as that I wanted to make art with my own messaging, and commissions would get in the way of that. But lately, I’ve started working on a commissioned piece. Given that this subject matter was interesting and it was a friend of mine,…
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Fear and Its Affect on Art
I’ve been learning to swim for over 10 years as an adult. It’s probably been engrained in me since I realized that people can drown as a child. I’ve slipped into the deep end both then and as an adult, and that sheer sense of panic comes to me immediately when I know I’m in…
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Getting back into it
I put some of my larger paintings into frames, getting ready for the Oakville Art in the Park festival. It’s a nice payoff to put items with mats already cut into frames, since you get to see how the work finally looks with relatively little effort. Still have to cut a few smaller mats for…
