WHEN OCEANS RAGE I ❘ Acrylic on canvas ❘ 10″ x 10″
WHEN OCEANS RAGE II ❘ Acrylic on canvas ❘ 10″ x 10″
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An older piece today, from about 3 years ago: "The Magician Bends The Rules, I & II", 18" x 18", acrylic & oil pastel on canvas. Pinks and pastels aren't my usual jam, but these were part of a series inspired by the memory of my grandmother (she loved pinks). I always think of her a lot at the holidays. She really loved the whole Christmas thing, buying & wrapping tons of presents, the decorations & lights, and pretty much anything Christmas. I miss her baking so much: shortbread, date squares, pies, cakes and my favourite pineapple squares, which I've never been able to reproduce to taste like hers, even though she did show me how to make them. It will be twenty years this year since she passed away, 3 days after her last Christmas. It's just never really seemed like Christmas without her. She left me her beautiful ceramic Nativity set, which I'll be setting up today in memory of her. 🎅🎄🦌 #preciousmemories
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"Meridianam", 6" x 6", acrylic on canvas.
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The Meadow 🌲🌲🌲 I love this place. A good spot to come listen to the wind.
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#thisiswinter #mothernature #inspiredbynature #slowlivingforlife #savouringhappiness #simplepleasures #alittlebeautyeveryday #livethelittlethings #ahappynow #myeverydaymagic #decemberdaily #keepitwild #northernforest #shinrinyoku #forestbathing
"Aurora"(morning sky on the ocean in winter). 6" x 6", acrylic on canvas. Swipe left to see some closeups of the texture.
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Twenty nine years ago, an angry man walked into L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal armed with an assult rifle, intending to hunt down and kill as many women as he could. He shot 28 bright young women, killing fourteen. The gunman's suicide note blamed women and feminists for his failures in life.
I remember that day. I was 20 years old, living in Ottawa, excited about my upcoming move to Montreal to go to school. This event shook my foundations: these were young women who were just like me. I was living through the aftermath of violence and mysogyny in my own life, but I had never realized how deep these currents run in society. I think we've gotten better since then at calling it out, but not at rooting it out, because there isn't a week that goes by without hearing something in person or in the media that doesn't sit right, something that puts women down just for being female, or reduces us to an object to be used for sexual purposes. Sure, sometimes it's "just a joke", but the truth is that even those jokes/memes or whatever are just a passive aggressive way for men to let us know that those attitudes about women are still around, and that they resent us for demanding equality. It's not funny when there are still so many men who seriously see women this way, including the most powerful men in the world, and too many crazy assholes who take out their own failures and frustrations on us with brutality and violence.
The fight is not over yet. I promise you that I will always remember.
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Another new piece, also still untitled. The photo doesn't do it justice: there's a lot of texture, and some shiny irridescence in those dark blues that isn't showing up well here. Swipe left to see some close-ups of the texture.
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A detail from one of my new littles. They're tough to photograph because I mixed quite a bit of irridescent pearl into them, but the sparkle doesn't show up well ➿ That darker blue area is a shiny mix of irridescent pearl, phtalo turquoise and phtalo blue green. #favoritecolours #brightshinythings
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F R E S H P A I N T ✨✨ These littles are fresh off the easel, still wet and nameless.
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I'm SUPER EXCITED: my work is featured in the December issue of Blank Spaces Magazine!! ✨✨ The issue is full of great Canadian writing and art. I hope you'll check it out, the link to order is in my profile - available in both print and digital. @blankspacesmag #canlit #canadiancontent #printisnotdead #stockingstuffer #canadianart
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