Evening Shores
Original Watercolours
Watercolour prints on Canvas
Old Cock Road
Depicts a small pedestrianized street in Halifax, which links Commercial Road to Market Street.
Lost Heartbeats
Bold and high contrast colors intended to be the visual equivalent of a heartbeat, one that is lost because it was not taken.
Detached From Color
Photography as a means of self-expression. The most important quality of a photograph, as in all art, is to evoke an emotional response.
Summer Study
Summer Study is an acrylic on canvas painting inspired by the blooms and foliage in Ontario’s national and provincial parks.
in cemento veritas
Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.
Jellyfish and Microbeads
By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.
Peppers for a Stew
This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.
Covidscapes
These images were done during our Covid isolation.
Time
Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.
A Spring Collection
A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.
3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy
The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.
Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Diversity Dance
Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
Birdhouse in the Birches
A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.
In cemento veritas
Paintings and sculptures.
Not my circus, not my monkeys
Visiting the fascinating world of idioms and expressions and how they convey dozens of cultural subtleties and concepts.
A freelance journalist’s take on transitioning to dystopian fiction writing
The dystopian genre has produced some of history’s most iconic books, like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World…
The Whole Wide World
A review of The Whole Wide World. I was surprised that my sister did not like it all, so I tried to examine why it impacted me so much.
House of Hunger/Book Review
Lexi Kent-Monning’s book review of House of Hunger by Uzodinma Okehi.
Stories from the Darp
A review of Pinching Zwieback, stories by Mitchell Toews.
From A Candle To A Flame To A Wildfire Of Hope
This is a review of Mehreen Ahmed’s novel, Incandescence published by Impspired Magazine, UK and written by Chitra Gopalakrishnan.
The Corner Store
A local landmark, a collection of antique merchandising gear, and what Tuffer Gibson calls his baby, that’s the Corner Store.
Review of Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
A review of Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.
On “Writing What You Know” When You Can’t Write About Yourself
“Write what you know” is common writing advice. But how do we make this mean something and make it a part of our own writing?
Jean Paul
One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Problematic Pollock: Why is he painting on the rug?
Exploring some of the ways in which cultural history has glorified Pollock’s work and turned it into a monolithic iconic entity.
Eyes on the Prize
Before there was transgender there was One-Eyed Charley.
A Review of Love Breaks My Bones, and I Laugh by Couri Johnson
A book review of Couri Johnson’s latest novella of fabulist short stories.
The Lang Fairy Books
A brief overview of the famous series edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, and his wife Nora, who did much of the rewriting.
Review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems
A review of Lilies on the deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems by Oisín Breen.
Review of The Mayapple Forest
A review of Kim Ports Parsons’ book of poetry The Mayapple Forest.
Enough is enough
A hospital nurse has an opportunity to eliminate a threat to her policewoman partner.
Minute hand
A magical realism story about a man finding redemption through fixing a clock.
Last Supper
In “Last Supper,” a death row inmate has an unconventional last meal the night before his unjust execution.
Restrained
A student working for the summer at an institution for elderly, psychiatric patients is shocked to discover the lack of real care and caring.
California “Area 13”
A wrong turn thrusts a man into reconciling California’s past, present, and future while examining his own.
One of a Kind
Ricky Gordon, a high school basketball coach in a small town, upon his father’s death, must come to terms with the parent he never respected.
Mine Heart
Mine Heart reminds us of the atrocities which men can inflict upon humanity.
Albatross
“Albatross” is a story about loss, acceptance, and the importance of resilience in becoming a grown up.
David’s Stare
A “commercial” artist receives sage advice from a revered Master.
Many Wee Undead
Tells the tale of undead leprechauns unleashed on a quiet village by the misspoken spells of ignorant Wiccans.
Pond Life
A nine-year-old boy in postwar Britain realizes, from his own behaviour, what nastiness ordinary people were capable of.
The Frightful Fall
A healthcare aid panics when his client falls through the Hoyer Lift and to the floor.
Rough Ride
“Rose, watch little Al while I go to the store and get a few things for dinner. I won’t be but an hour,” called Jenny Wilkinson.
Lot Dog
Monday mayhem inside the “Dream Factory.”
The Best of Mothers
The overturning of Roe Vs Wade, for an Indian woman looking to the West as a model for women’s rights, this was my honest view.
A Spirit of Fate
With a dirty hand, the lad held the small, amber vessel into the moonlight and peered at it.
Last Night I Saw Joe Hill
Like the song and the writer, I wonder about meeting one no longer in this world. By speaking with them we learn and this gives me hope.
Just another Thursday
A panoramic view through snippets of my life as I deal with wage slave jobs, random debauchery, and just a little bit of police harassment.
Tinnitus
Looking straight at reality but trying to incorporate whole thinking/feeling, including the tools from dreams.
In a Void — What’s the Point?
This work lives in the shadowy forest between science and art between comprehension and imagination.
Life in the Northern Woods
From out of winter forest,
bearded men, in heavy coats and boots…
Syllables Blessed
A long long wail that stretches sound expressively
From solid earth to distant arching sky
Grown Up
Trying to capture one of the main struggles of being an adult.
Even the Stars
This poem illustrates that success is not necessarily what everyone sees, but what you have to do so that you are happy.
Cry Me a River
Toxic relationships, even those of close family members, need not be tolerated, as our mental health is far more important.
Gaza
The narrator connects the coyotes’ prey to the carnage in Gaza.
Trauma Essay
This poem about having golden age syndrome, inspired by going up into my attic and seeing all my old childhood artifacts.
Take Control
The battle of addiction is constant and difficult, especially when tackled alone.
Terrorism
Some thoughts on the importance of language in creating values in this troubled world.
FireFlies
Exploring human relationships and the impact we have on each other as we move through our lives.
On Becoming a Centenarian
A newly-minted centenarian expresses her gratitude for her life.
Seeds of Resilience
Resilience and hope for the new generation to rise up against the corrupt system in Nigeria and indeed other African societies.