Curious crowd
2.5ft x 5ft, Acrylic on canvas, For sale 

Mooey Mowers
12" x 36" Acrylic on canvas, For sale

The Girls, 2ft x 3ft, Acrylic on canvas

SOLD, Art Among the Ruins 2016

Gentle Gesture

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36", For sale

Cow Crowd 

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36", SOLD 

Stone Heron Gallery, 2015

Drinking Disruption

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36", for sale

Perfect Pair

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20", for sale

The Girls- SOLD

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36"

Stone Heron Gallery 2015

Holstein Cows

Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 24" SOLD

  Private Sale 2013

This is experimentation at it's best!  I first created a sketch of the cows from a picture and painted an under painting.  I then took an icing piper filled it with paint and created all of the outlines in the painting.  Then I added in the colour and voila!  Super fun. 

Holstein Hangout

Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 48" SOLD

Cow Characters

Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 48" SOLD

Stone Heron Gallery 2013

Terrific Trio, SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12"

Out in the Sticks Exhibition

Simple Life- SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 18" 

Out In the Sticks Exhibition

Opening of the Stone Heron Gallery, June 21, 2013

Wolfe Island ON

Now open for the summer



The opening was a success!  This is my third summer exhibiting in this gallery and it has been nothing short of amazing since I have started.  This gallery exhibits the work of 20 local Wolfe Island Artists.  This is my home stomping grounds and where all of the magic began....



Art Among the Ruins June 15, 2013- a truly excuisite event

I LOVED this show.  It was my first time doing an outdoor event and I definitely think I was spoiled for the first one.  This show took place with 53 local artists and artisans.  On site there was a winding river that wrapped the exterior of the property and ruins from an old paper mill from the 1800s.  The site was truly a gem, the staff were amazing, flexible and helpful and my paintings did well!  There were people from all over Ontario and it was neat to visit and talk with them.  The show ended with a dinner for the artists which was fabulous.  Thanks to every everyone for a wonderful day!

Weight, SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36", Cornerstone Exhibition

What can I say about this one....geometric colourful madness, and cows!  Love it.

The Grass is always Greener… SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 16" x 16", Stone Heron Exhibition

He was really interested in what the other was eating!  This piece painted from a  photographed taken at the barn on Middle road by HWY 15, Kingston ON.  I love the muted greens and the expression of the black cow.  The angle of the golden cow was a bit tricky, but I think I managed to capture it- his neck and leg seem to shine. I the colours in the face of the black cow. I like when different colours come out of the black in the sunlight. 

Luminous Laze, SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas- 16" x 48", Stone Heron Exhibition

I just finished painting this piece last night and brought it to Cornerstone at lunch today.  It is may favourite one yet (I may have said that before but I think it is a good thing!).  I created the back drop from my head and then pulled cows from three different photographs I took.  I painted from left cow to right cow. With each cow I painted, it was my favourite until I painted the next.  I really enjoy the lighting in all of the cows.  Also, I have never painted a cow completely from the side such as the Holstein on the right. I really like its belly and utter.  I love building up the muscles of the cows with the paint.  Muscle insertion points are especially a challenge and I think I really achieved capturing musculature in this painting. 

Poking about the Pasture, SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 36" x 48", Cornerstone Exhibition

This painting involved lots of math- I sat on my hardwood floor with a ruler, a pencil and a calculator writing down numbers for about an hour before I got the proper composition.  The cows came from three different photographs where all of the cows where different sizes.  The cows started off as different sized boxes to simplify the problem.  First, I had to size them to each other and then I blew them up to fit them onto the canvas.  Then it was just a matter of penciling in the cows into their respective boxes. The cows are from the barn on Middle road at the HWY 15 intersection.  The landscape background came form my head.  It was a foggy day on which I painted it on so interesting to look at it and see the haze in the background even though I didn't consciously intend for it to look that way.  I really like the but on the cow laying down the subtle tones are captured. 

Hungry Holsteins - SOLD

Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 30", Cornerstone Exhibition

In this piece, like the forest/ mint greens against the cows and the orange underpainting-  it is fresh and cool.  The cow in the middle has an extremely challenging pose to capture, there is foreshortening and subtle tones which indicate bones and muscle groups.  I got it right away with this one- I knew where I was going with the brushstrokes.  I was super satisfied with it because often this does not come easily and I am painting it five times over!  I really like the character of this herd.