English Bay & Alterpiece Art

I sometimes get extraordinary links from Art Knowledge News. This one is absolutely beautiful.

I saw the movie "Andrei Rublev", by Tarkovsky a few weeks ago. The three and a half hours raced by. Rublev was a 15th century icon painter. It ends with a statement/question about black and white and color. Apparently you can watch Tarkovsky on-line without pirating it.

Long-Exposure English Bay

I have been so lucky to have English Bay as my long suffering model; putting up with my changes in style and never complaining about the way I make it look.

Invitation to WITNESS

I hope any of you reading this who are in, or going to be in, the Vancouver area will please come by the opening on the evening of Thursday, March 1st. If you can't make it that night, call me and maybe I can meet you there during gallery hours. I'm very pleased to be part of this show.

Francesca Woodman & Chloe

I was scanning my black & white negatives when I came across another tree portrait that I couldn't help but colour. I thought it a good opportunity to display a photographer I recently discovered, Francesca Woodman, and a lovely blog that featured a photo by that photographer. Francesca died at the age of 22.

Okuyama Print

Katherine & I happened to be in a thrift store, dropping off stuff, trying to reclaim some space in our home, when I saw this sitting on a pile of old photos. It is not a photo, of course, but a woodblock print by Gihachiro Okuyama. He lived during the first half of the 20th century. I paid two dollars for the print.

It is humbling to think of the years of dedication to a craft, only to be left on a discard pile in a thrift store. I feel very lucky to have found it.

Birch Tree - Tinted

Winter is a good time for scanning old film to digital. I couldn't help throwing some colour into this black & white image.