My Top Books About Artists and Their Gardens
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My Top Books About Artists and Their Gardens

Finding inspiration and companionship in the gardens of artists & creatives. A few favourite books + one video!

What does your creativity do for you? Does it bring you delight? Satisfy your curiosity? Give a means of expression, connection, or healing?

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Afternoons in the vegetable garden
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Afternoons in the vegetable garden

Crafting paintings from memories

This was a very special illustration to create. My client, and now friend, Marie-Ève, shared a story that resonated with me personally. It was about a memory she has of her mother who died of cancer several years ago.

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This stately house caught my eye with its warmly lit face and orange fall leaves scattered about. 🍂 I painted this in gouache on watercolour paper. It’s part of my Late Afternoon mini-series capturing the warm sunlight and strong shadows of l
I just LOVED the crazy colours bouncing around in the shadow areas. Not to mention, the warm sunlit façade of this old house, the tall towering tree to the right, and the sharply angled light and shadow. ☀️💙 This painting is part of my Late
I loved this old gothic house beneath the rows of towering trees. 💙 It was dusk when I walked by – that time of day when there is a blue haze about everything, and the eye begins to become uncertain about what it’s seeing…🌚 This
Creating this collection of paintings was my first time working in acrylic. It meant a steep learning curve of new paints, colours, brushes… 🎨 I discovered that the larger scale and stiffer acrylic brushes allowed me to scratch in colours an
This classic wood shingle Cape Cod style house is on a quiet dead-end street in the nearby town of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Late afternoon sunlight made for long shadows and warm sunlit areas. A blue hydrangea and twisted tree were like nature-made sc