Dear Readers,

I am pleased to announce that after a long absence, I’m back to painting and posting. Much has happened since I last posted. I toured the Netherlands on a fantastic painting tour in 2016, offered by one of the previous instructors at Emily Carr University when it was still located on Granville Island and I completed my “Certificate of Fine Arts” from Emily Carr University of Arts in 2017. I taught painting classes to both children and adults at various locations in Vancouver, and took several painting classes from a Vancouver studio, “Canvas Method”, throughout the intervening years. I started a Meetup, Intuitive Painting, and joined a Meetup, the Vancouver Urban Sketchers. Once I retired from teaching elementary school in June of 2023, I travelled by train and by plane throughout six different countries, criss crossing Europe for two months. I visited ancient Roman ruins, art galleries and many famous and lesser know sites in and around cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Prague, Florence, Barcelona, Seville, Cadiz, Bardajoz, Coimbra, Madrid and on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu.  I fulfilled a dream of mine by taking a plein air oil painting course in Tuscany. Here are a few photos. More to come. Enjoy!