It’s the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. We meet at sunrise at Shipwreck’s Beach parking lot with Adrian Burke, an ARC Seabird Technician (Archipelago Research & Conservation). He’s from the Big Apple with a BS in biology and two-and-a-half-years experience on Kauai. Jenn Rothe, Field Crew Lead with ARC who we did the Christmas Bird […]
DrawBridge tells the story of my brother Steve (book’s illustrator), and how he communicated through artful elements. Today’s elements are Space and Shape. The book came out June 1st, 2019. These blogs are an introduction. Non-verbal moments and elements of daily life inspire me, and also inspired Steve. What inspires you? The seven Elements of […]
Leading up to the publication of DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia in May of 2019, a braided poem lauds three of the seven Art elements: LINE in poetry and art, TEXTURE and FORM in an artful food-tasting. Stay tuned for more art elements braided into text over the next few months. Of ART’s seven […]
Culture Days and the North Shore Writers’ Association Presents ‘Thanks A Lot Express-OH!’ Saturday, September 27, 2014 10-12noon At North Van City Library, 120 W. 14th St., North Vancouver Prompts, prompts and more prompts! The process of art is one of observing, absorbing, reflecting, reacting and presenting. Sometimes that requires a prompt—a gentle […]
The North Shore Writers’ Festival at North Van City Library The North Shore Writers’ Festival comes to town but once a year. In partnership with the North Shore Writers’ Association and the North Van City Library, I lasso it, wrestle with it, tie it down, embrace it, and kiss it on the nose. Lasso and Wrestle […]
Writers’ 10th Annual Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival: Winds of Inspiration What was it about the wind at the Summer Dreams Festival at Trout Lake Park (aka John Hendry Park) on Saturday, August 24, 2013? Was it how it stretched the cirrus into alluring fingers, or how the lake rippled and late summer leaves rustled? […]
Harmony Arts Festival & North Shore Writers Love on the Fly Through Memoir Love on the fly you say…do tell. Well, that’s us. The North Shore Writers Association and the Harmony Arts Festival. The last day, August 11, 2013. Fran Bourassa led us in memoir writing in a two-hour workshop with credits to Sylvia Taylor. […]
Vancouverite with Vagabond Tendencies segue to ‘Having Being’ Part I, II,III Read and Sung by Joan Boxall May 11, 2012 TWSRead @ Take 5 Café, Vancouver Growing up in a protective environment gives rise to rebellion. The secure home where I lived was a corner lot, fenced in, conifer-lined, and cast late-afternoon shadows. Other homes […]
Creative Journey: Sketching, Movement and Flow Sketching My first blog on the creative journey. Today I was with my brother, a fabulous artist who combines impressionism with his own style. We were sketching in a three-hour figurative session as we do every week, side by side, when another artist came along to observe what we’d […]