Wychwood Eco Arts Market
Find me at the Barns on MAY 24th 10-4 I’ll be selling small framed and unframed drawings, handmade paper work and paintings https://www.wychwoodbarns.ca/barns-eco-market-doors-open-2026
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Arts in the Park – Ties to Nature
June 21st & September 20th 2-4pm Taylor Creek Park – 260 Dawes Rd, East York, ON M4C 5C4 Arts in the Parks presents: Ties to Nature FAQ page for your paper can be found at this link Thank you for joining us…
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Taracacum Officionale – Dandelion Lawnscape
Taraxacum Officionale Dandilion Lawnscape Bonfire charcoal on Strathmore 400 Paper, 4 x 9.45’ The dandelion, a healthful and prolific plant is the subject of this charcoal drawing. Lawn keepers everywhere ineffectually wage war on a plant with numerous benefits for the liver,…
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Take a class with me
I’ve been working at Create Art Studio for many years. Please join me for a learn to draw, botanical watercolour, or a meditative drawing and movement class!Some are held in the studio and others online so you can connect with me from…
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Garden Letters
Merging my gardening, with drawing, and communication with friends. Drawing may be one of the earliest forms of communication. We can draw a parallel between seed dispersal and language. Between roots and language. Between the movement of people and the variety of…
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Sketching Tour
ARTivating the Ravine was an event sponsored by a TD bank “park people” grant. A couple of neighbours and I submitted an application that would bring neighbours into the nearby ravine to learn something new and enjoy the fresh air. We couldn’t…
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WexPop Mural
PlazaPOPS I was awarded a grant to complete a mural for an inovative temporary initiative. PlazaPOPS. “is a high impact, low cost, and replicable demonstration of the potential of ‘pop up’ community gathering places within the privately-owned public spaces (POPS) of Toronto’s…
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Illustrated books for children
I have collaborated on two books with Alyse Ediger Martin. She is a registered nurse working at St. Micheal’s Hospital in Toronto. She writes books that normalize hospital visits for children. This is her second book in the Finnegan Lee series and…
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Great Lake Prints
Prints are available in a variety of media. Contact me for details and pricing.
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Nautical chart work
I have been invited to show during a sailing regatta at a Yacht club on Lake Ontario. I will include my work on nautical charts. I have made new work for this event that I would like to share.
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e is for earth
Opening reception of e is for earth as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival #TODO18 Â “Carneval” Oil Pastel on discontinued wallpaper I will be exhibiting work made specifically for this show along with a host of other artists. Jan 14th 2018,…
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Fly by night – Gladstone, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
For the all night long Nuit Blanche event at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto Ontario, we created a place for people to come, relax, sit down, and meet some new friends. We wanted to evoke childhood forts and camping, letting people have…
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Food currency
This series of charcoal drawings share utter abandon for a sense of scale. Subjects range from global currency, contemporary food systems, and industrial agriculture, to simply the patterns found at the cellular level, or the bark of a tree. This recent body of work…
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Human – My afternoon with a fox & skunks
I was invited to create a unique work for The Tallahassee Natural History Museum. Among other exciting things it is a natural habitat, or zoo, of indigenous rescued wildlife, historical buildings, and an environmental science center. I proposed to be put up in my…
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Nautical Charts
In the mid to late 1980s I saw the shoreline that I grew up on change drastically with the invasive species we call zebra mussels. These razor sharp but very small critters established themselves on every poissible surface. We had to suddenly…
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Details of Bees
Charcoal drawings of bees as seen through a microscope. Lovingly rendered in charcoal on tinted paper.
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eksperimenta! AGO goes to Tallinn
As the artist in residence for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Youth Program in 2013-2014 I collaborated with 30 members of the AGO Youth Council on a project that we titled U.G.L.Y: Unified Geniuses Living Young. Our exhibit in the AGO Community…
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Charcoal as my material of choice
I am interested in the transformation of materials from their organic state to a mass produced and then consumed product. Charcoal is a common artists’ tool manufactured into various forms, but in its simplest form it is the residue of impure carbon easily…
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Weather Network
The weather network took an interest in a group show that I put together at the Wychwood Artscape Community Gallery. The three artists showing together have a serious interest in conservation. Kasia Burdaka, who interviewed me nicknamed me Echo-the-Eco-Artist The show was…
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