Winter Firs

Completed print.  Snowy landscape and blue fir trees.

In Progress .......

In late August I worked on a private commission.  The client purchased five tree images for their holiday card.  I retained the rights to use the blocks in my own prints.  One of the blocks that I cut was not used.  It was replaced with a similar, but wider tree.  I am now printing an edition using these two blocks. Two colours down and two or three to go.  It will be ready for the One of a Kind Show in November.

Production Time

I am working on prints for the One of a Kind Christmas Show and Sale in Toronto this November.  Only eight weeks to go!

Up on the Ridge

I took a Renter Mentor program at Open Studio in Toronto years ago so I could learn the basics of etching.  This is one of the prints I made then based on part of the landscape on the family farm in Cape Breton. Available for sale here.

Moleskine Journals

This is a small selection of Moleskine journals which I have recovered with hand printed Japanese papers.  They are available for sale here.  I will also be selling them at the One of a Kind Christmas Show and Sale here in Toronto November 22 - December 2, 2012.

Queen West Art Crawl - Toronto

I will be showing new prints at the 10th annual Queen West Art Crawl  in the west end of Toronto this coming weekend!

Blue & Orange Carpet

Another carpet using my cut up Hundertwasser blocks. Available here.

Aqua Mint Carpet

A second carpet print from my imagination. It reminds me of the thirties somehow. Available here.

Eight Square Carpet

Late last year I started to make one of a kind prints based on carpets from my imagination. I am using my collection of 1" x 1" Hundertwasser blocks.  I like the possibilities of pattern creation using rectangles and squares.

My E-vite for the One of a Kind Christmas Show here in Toronto.  Just over a week to go!

I am busy preparing for the One of a Kind Christmas show here in Toronto.  I will be participating for the first five days of the show.

Along with original prints I will be showing Moleskine journals and papier mache bowls and platters.

Running Horse 1

This new one of a kind print was featured here

The Older I Get the Better I Was - Mencken

This print was in a very interesting Treasury on Etsy awhile ago -here.  I love the name of the Treasury - The secret love affair of Mr. & Mrs. Dada in etsyland!

In All Canadian Treasury on Etsy

This print is in a new All Canadian treasury on Etsy here - all white and black and red.  Very cool.

Kabuki Crest 15

One of my recent small one of a kind print. Available here.

The central motif is a family crest belonging to an acting family from Japanese Kabuki theatre. This Edo pattern was originally printed as a souvenir for Kabuki enthusiasts. Later the design was used to decorate clothing and small personal objects. I am continuing this tradition.

Barns Art Market in Toronto/Africa Pot 1

Off to the Barns Art Market at the Wychwood Barns in Toronto tomorrow with a batch of new prints.  Over this last week I made 42 new one of a kind small prints as I almost sold out of the ones I made for my last show.

Bamboo and Water

My latest large scale (20" x 26") print, one of a kind.  I am still reimagining the bamboo forest I walked through in Kyoto.

Available here.

Icing Glaze Vase

Back to printing West German vases - this time in black and white - and just concentrating on the textural quality of the glazes.

I like this one.  It is pretty darn cheerful with the big circles.  I think those designers had a lot of fun with their creations.

Available here.

Etsy Front Page

One of my prints - The Ridge Roof - was included in a Treasury that made it to the front page of Etsy.  Thank you MalcolmStudioShop.

New Crop of Small Prints

In preparing for my Barns Art Market show tomorrow I printed up a batch of 6" x6" one of a kind prints and these three are from that batch.

I had actually printed the watery backgrounds 2 or 3 years ago.  At that point, I think I had run out of ideas so I put the partially completed sheets away.  Of course, I would keep on coming across them in the studio and I would shuffle through them and wonder what the heck I ever thought I was going to do with them.

Now that they are finished it seems obvious what I should have done with them ...  hindsight is everything they say it is.

All SOLD.