Artist Journal

Painting Salt Spring Island is endlessly fascinating
Painting Salt Spring Island is endlessly fascinating
Painting Salt Spring Island is endlessly fascinating. Landscape, heritage buildings, farm life, seasons of colour all resource for my interpretations. My personal connection to SSI started over 30years ago with... Read more...
Driftwood Shaman Sticks
Driftwood Shaman Sticks
Driftwood shaman sticks come to life with paint, drum beat and powerful intention.  Collected from my beach each cedar and arbutus wood branch is gathered to dry in front of... Read more...
Enhancing Legacy and Ghost Moon
Enhancing Legacy and Ghost Moon
Enhancing Legacy and Ghost Moon : As an artist I enjoy revisiting my paintings and adding original elements, playing with colour and enhancing the gold lining.  Today I am enhancing... Read more...
Snow time in the studio
Snow time in the studio
The snow is falling on Salt Spring Island, it is magical to be covered in a blanket of snow. This is a perfect time to stoke the wood stove, and... Read more...
Valentine thoughts 2019
Valentine thoughts 2019
This winter, as I happily play in my studio, energy flows in - dancing, romancing surrender. I am drawn to lovely soft rose hues, graduated mauves, and deep crimson, all... Read more...
Mexico Musings
Mexico Musings
Read Jills earlier blog on visiting Mexico    click here Read more...
Living Life This Way Is a Blessing
Living Life This Way Is a Blessing
Surrender, Grace, Focus, Wonder Living life this way is a blessing A few years ago walking home from the beach I hear a loud voice tell me to stop, turn... Read more...
France Originals – Gallery Showing April 2015
France Originals – Gallery Showing April 2015
Painting in France to an art show on Salt Spring Island “Spring in France is a wayside blossoming. The southwest a burst of viridian green meadows feed ample cows and... Read more...
France: Toujour Amour
France: Toujour Amour
France; Toujour Amour Posted on November 9, 2014 France a love affair of countless journeys over decades I  surrender to its warm embrace and paint from my heart. A year... Read more...
France as if a Dream
France as if a Dream
With deeply held experiences while painting France, I surrender to my dreams captured from nocturnal, lucid and, the place between sleep and awake that Robert Louis Stevenson writes about in... Read more...
"Murano Glass" Original Watercolour
"Murano Glass" Original Watercolour
Daffodils stuffed in a blown glass vase. Leaf stalks poking each way softened with vines trailing about but, my concentration is on a hand blown exquisite vessel. A flattened orb... Read more...
God's Bidding
God's Bidding
“You are meant to be joyful and only embrace the truth of who you are……it is your Soul Quest, your essence.” I had been anxious about a host of concerns.... Read more...