It’s coming up to exhibition time with the Albany Art Groups September Exhibition  at the Vancouver Art Centre and the Summer Exhibition at the Albany Town Hall, and I’m happy to announce that my painting of Milkwort and Butterfly was chosen to be showcased by the group and made into posters for the upcoming exhibition! A great privilege indeed!
  In the meantime, it’s the beginning of orchid season here at Krickenwood Farm with the blooming of Purple Hovea, White Clematis and Jug Orchids coming up, so I’m busily cataloguing flowers in paint as they make their presence felt around the place, lots more Blue Banded Bees and Mardos (Yellow Footed Antechinas) and other critters on the drawing board so I’ll share pictures as they’re completed.

Narrikup Monthly Markets coming up and with these new A5 picture frames, Ive been working on smaller pictures in gouache and ink as studies for a bigger picture. I may have to revisit the cartoon bugs of old and play with different expressions and poses that I can imagine them taking.

  Finally finished this little guy, I think I’m developing a series of bugs - insects in their environments. I’m fascinated by Dragonfly’s..starting as a larval nymph dragging itself out of the water to leave a desicated shell and transform into a master of flight..spinning mid air on a dime and darting over Lilly pads. Native American Indians saw it as a guardian of the Spirit World and I can see why, the way they capture light reflected in their wings brings out the magical to any visit to the wetlands and rivers.