Special Announcement

I am pleased to announce that I am again participating this year's Spring Beach Studio Tour, now in its 20th year. This spring's tour starts Friday evening May 3rd at 6 pm. and runs to Sunday May 5th and offers the work of 25 artists, both residents of the Beach area of Toronto, Ontario as well as guests from other parts of the city and the province.  I am happy, once again, to be hosting a fine Ceramic Artist, Zsuzsa Monostory who maintains a studo at the Glen Williams Mill just outside of Georgetown. For further information you can contact me at 416-694-3277 or go to the tour website: www.beachstudiotour.ca.

Zsuzsa Monostory

Quite Afternoon in an Italian Village

Orvieto

This was painted after returning from a trip to Italy in late October. I was looking for compositions based on the architecture of the old towns; narrow streets, with the sunlight cutting between the buildings.

Unfortunately the weather wasn't  very co-operative. It was cloudy, wet and chilly most of the time!

"En Plein Air"

This watercolour is called "En Plein Air" and was painted from a photo that I took (oops, did I cheat?) of a fellow artist painting en plein air at the "A Brush with the Highlands" event, an anual event held at the beginning of August in the Haliburton Highlands north of Toronto.

I am quite pleased with it and think it is one of the best ones to date.

Portrait of a Young Woman

This is a recent watercolour portrait, painted from life, of a young woman.

"Summer"

This was the second of the large (full sheet 22 x 30 inches floral watercolours in my Summer Series. These are bolder and more colourful and looser than my first large watercolour shown below which is in a more traditional style.

Hew Series of Paintings

Here is the most recent example of a new series of watercolours that I have called The Summer Series. They are large (full sheet 22 by 30 inches) paintings of floral scenes. So far they consist of Phlox and Black-eyed Susans, but I plan some more using other types of flowers. It just seems to me that you can't beat the combination of the purple-pink of the phlox and the yellow of the blak-eyed susans!