March 1, 2025 Soon, I will be leaving my mom’s village to return to Canada. This experience has moved me in different ways. The up close and personal confrontation with early dementia yanked me right back into an orbit around my childhood. We all work hard to become the adult that we would like to be, and many… Read More »
February 21, 2025 I am so honoured to hear from Sir Billy Connolly in person, about the painting I sent him. He likes it! “I hope your painting continues to be as good as it is,” he comments on the audio. “That is a very good painting of me. It is much better than the usual paintings I… Read More »
December 25, 2024 This Christmas day was bittersweet. I am visiting my mom and sister in my country of origin. The main objective is to help out with everything that has to be arranged and adjusted because of my mom’s dementia diagnosis. But it is also to make as many wonderful memories as possible now that she is… Read More »
December 17, 2024 Today is my husband Wim’s birthday. And today I am writing this in a Toronto airport lounge, awaiting my flight to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I am going to my home country to help care and make future plans for my mother, who, for my sister and I quite unexpectedly, has received a dementia diagnosis. I… Read More »
December 15, 2024 We can all use a good laugh during the holidays, and my favourite way to get the giggles is to watch shows with Sir Billy Connelly. He is my all-time favourite comedian. Recently, he asked artists to send their paintings to him and I figure that was as good a reason as any to devote… Read More »
December 9, 2024 Time has been fast-forwarding these last few weeks, or so it seems! It is as if I barely have time to open my paint-tubes, and poof, another weeks has gone. ‘t Must be the season. Looking ahead at the coming weeks, I will not be posting as many new works as I have in the… Read More »
November 25, 2024 It has been quite a while since I saw this scene. It was on a balmy September day some years ago. I was lounging at the edge of a little vegetation covered pond. And I saw them coming: a mother goose with several goslings behind her. It always amazes me that these birds are so… Read More »
November 11, 2024 Has this ever happened to you: you see a person and while they are talking to you, you do not hear a word, you just are mesmerized by one or more of their features?Well, that is what this new painting is about. This Asian woman has a delightful face, but the thing that kept drawing… Read More »
November 5, 2024 ‘Spooky’ and ‘Sun Lover’ were two other cats that were adopted during the art show this past Saturday. It makes me so happy to see people drawn to my art. These two paintings were based on our own feral cat nursery family of 2021. I almost felt bad letting them go, but I know they… Read More »
November 3, 2024 I am pleased to announce that my little merry Kitten painting found a new owner! It was sold during an enjoyable High Tea event organised by Ninth Life Cat Rescue Ontario in the charming Erindale Community Hall in Mississauga. I was honoured to be invited to show some of my artwork at this event, that… Read More »