20 min watercolour painting demo. 

As many of you may know I teach Watercolour at a local college here in Hamilton. In my class last night I performed a painting demo for the students. I wanted to show what can be done in a 20 min time limit not including the drawing ti...

Thanks to Regina Haggo for this insightful article about mine and Donna Fratesi's most recent show at Earls Court Gallery on Ottawa street in Hamilton Ontario. It's always a pleasure to have someone like Regina critique the work and have it published for everyone to se...

I am happy to announce a new exhibition coming March 28th at Earls Court Gallery. Earls Court Gallery located on Ottawa street in Hamilton and is one of Hamilton's finest galleries. The show is comprised of a new series of paintings that I have been working on for some...

Hey Folks, I have a new exhibition showing of my work at the Dundas Museum & Archives in Dundas for the Month of October and November. It's a little bit of some later pieces and some new. Stop by and check it out. Starts Tomorrow!

Also I'll be part of the Fieldcote Muse...

Finished! A two hour stint at 5 in the morning was all it took to complete. I'ts amazing what time you can wake up at when you aren't in the throws of another episode of your latest Netflix binge. But I digress, this time of the morning is one of the best ways to get i...

So it's day 3 and I'm about 75% of the way complete. The houses as you can see in the background are almost complete. Usually a painting like this takes about 2 to 3 days but I'm slowing the process down a bit so I can better explain and show the process involved....

So a few people have asked me about my process and insight in to how I paint. So I decided that I might share some of the technical details of the work and create a blog series and write a sort of day by day chronology of a piece I'm working on right now. 

The painting...

I'm excited to say I've been featured in the Hamilton Spectator about my current show at the Focus Gallery entitled "COOTES". Thanks to Regina Haggo for the insightful article.

A great article was published on the Bay Area Restoration Council Website about my work. I was featured as BARC artist in November. 

My most recent show entitled "COOTES" is an exploration into what I would describe as urban nature. The show contained paintings focusing on a large nature reserve in Hamilton poignantly named “COOTES PARADISE”. The area has gone through many vicissitudes of decay and...