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Garden Walk

This piece is loosely based on a visit to Maple Lawn Garden, a nineteenth century estate, now a heritage site. I exercised artistic license with some virtual plantings, playing with shapes and colours and light to suggest a warm summer afternoon. This is a nice place to stroll and linger and perhaps to sit onContinue reading “Garden Walk”

Spring Bouquet

In his letters, van Gogh expressed his deep connection to sunflowers and the gratitude they represented for him. While the quote attributed to him, viz. “the sunflower is mine” is apocryphal; he as good as said it and is remembered as the painter of sunflowers. For a couple of weeks in May, Canadians can proudlyContinue reading “Spring Bouquet”