This weekend is the Denman Island Studio Tour featuring 14 artist’s studios, August 6th and 7th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. My studio is on the Tour again this year. The Tour features diverse works including painting, sculpture, woodcarving, […]
This weekend is the 2014 Studio Tour on Denman Island featuring 15 studios and diverse works including painting, sculpture, textiles and fabric arts, jewelry, mixed media, ceramics and photography. My studio is on the Tour again this year and I’m […]
This is part of my story of how I came to live on the West Coast and was lead to being a carver by a giant tree. Taking you back to February of 1985, I had just arrived from the […]
A new project! I’m calling this “the massive beast” – it’s the biggest burl I’ve ever had the pleasure to have dropped into the box of my truck! It’s red cedar, approximately 5 feet across and I estimate its weight […]
The biggest hit at my studio during the Denman Island Studio Tour this month was the newly completed BIG CEDAR BURL table. An impromptu photo-shoot with Baby Arwyn (above) gives a clear sense of the dimensions of this table – […]
This weekend – Saturday, August 10th and Sunday, August 11th – our community hosts the 2013 Denman Art Studio Tour! My studio is on the tour along with 21 other venues. This free self-guided tour takes you to local painters, […]
The Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday was a great success! Over a hundred folks dropped by – for our small Island population that’s a great turnout. An abundance of positive feedback on the studio and the artwork on display. Had […]
The GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION for my new studio is coming up next weekend – on Saturday, July 13th from 4 – 9 pm. Please join us in celebrating my new bright and beautiful art-making space! There will be lots of […]
At times it felt like the last few details would never end as they went on and on… and on! There’s a reason why so many Island buildings and homes have just a few unfinished details. “They suck the life […]
Getting the rafters up and the dormer constructed were the most challenging for me of the whole project of building my new studio. And certainly all the angles involved in constructing the dormer proved to be the biggest challenge of […]
