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Posted on May 3, 2012 by sharon

Spring Studio Tour May 5 & 6

The fore­cast is sunny and warm for this week­end –ideal con­di­tions for my open house stu­dio tour this year.  I will be trans­form­ing my back­yard into an out­door gallery with my out­door art and indoor art pieces includ­ing my Black and … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on March 25, 2012 by sharon

Featured Artist on Artbomb

I am excited to be the fea­tured artist this Mon­day on Art­bomb Daily an online art auc­tion where the art changes daily.  One of my Black & White Pan­els will be avail­able for sale. Art­bomb was just fea­tured today on … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on March 19, 2012 by sharon

Spring In the Air–Studio Tour Time

The weather is already feel­ing like May which is highly unusu­ally for this time of year.  I dis­tinctly feel that I should be get­ting ready for the North Toronto Group of Artists (NTGA) Spring Stu­dio Tour which usu­ally hap­pens in … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 2, 2012 by sharon

Black & White Panel Series

Over the last few weeks I have been work­ing on what I call my “black & white panel series”  where I have taken the same size of paper and restricted my colour palette to only black and white acrylic paint.  … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 31, 2012 by sharon

The Search for Authenticity this Year

The mean­ing of a box three hours on the mean­ing of a box metaphor­i­cal lit­eral vir­tual non­sense present your mus­ings on video by Fri­day Stretch your mind, stretch your bound­aries but not over the age of 30.…..too late.…need latte now.…. pay bills.….focus on … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on November 25, 2011 by sharon

Latest Black & White Panels

I have been focus­ing on my black and white pan­els this week–out of the four­teen pan­els I started with I feel I have seven good ones that are now com­pleted.  I have been work­ing on a few group­ings with dif­fer­ent … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on November 14, 2011 by sharon

Happy Birthday Claude Monet

“Despite my extremely mod­est prices, deal­ers and art lovers are turn­ing their backs on me.  It is very depress­ing to see the lack of inter­est shown in an art object which has no mar­ket value.”  –Claude Monet (Born Novem­ber 14, 1840) … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on November 11, 2011 by sharon

Home Series: Canola Gold

Two abstract/impressionistic paint­ing­sof the prairies emerged within a week of each other this Fall.  Along with “Sun­set Into Night” which was posted in my last blog entry, I also com­pleted “Canola Gold” (40″ x 60″ Acrylic on Can­vas) the same week. … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on November 10, 2011 by sharon

Home Series — in Process

I took advan­tage of the last few warm Fall days to com­plete two large paint­ings that con­nect to my Home Series — I worked on my cement pad and poured my paints as the squir­rels looked at me and the … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on October 15, 2011 by sharon

Yonge/Lawrence BIA Artwalk 2011

I have always felt priv­i­leged being part of the local art com­mu­nity in my neigh­bour­hood. There are a sur­pris­ingly large num­ber of self-employed entre­pre­neurs and artists busy work­ing here in the Yonge & Lawrence area and it feels good to … Read the rest of this entry →

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