My Plein Air Adventures
Plein Air is where I share stories of how I attempt to capture the beauty of the outdoors through painting and observation.
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2026 St. Martins Plein Air Festival
There are few places in New Brunswick that seem made for Plein Air painting quite like St. Martins. With it’s sea caves, dramatic coastline, beaches, fishing boats, colourful buildings, and ever-changing tides offering endless inspiration. This is a place my good friend Dale Cook and I paint regularly. Recently we spent three days fully immersed while participating in the 2026 Plein Air Festival in St. Martins. A very special shout out to the Peter Salmon Art Club and their incredible dedication and attention in organizing this wonderful event. I am very honoured to have participated as one of the ten invited artists and having the privilege of acting as a…
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My “Painted Places” Map
After weeks of wondering how to make it happen and with a lot of research, in combination with a generous heap of procrastination (spending $$$) – I finally figured it out. I’m happy to say that a new feature has found its way onto my website – an interactive map called Painted Places that traces many of my Plein Air paintings back to the locations where they began. To access my interactive map – Click here Painted Places For years, much of my work has originated outdoors while holding my camera looking for inspiration and reference materials. Then it started to change…I started to bring my watercolour paints. Then it…
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Sun, Salt and Slow Time
As we walked down the ramp to exit the plane, I turned to look at my husband and said “please remind me not to complain about the heat for at least three minutes”. We laughed. We arrived both sun starved and aching for warm (hot) weather. We were certainly not disappointed. Have you ever gotten a headache because the sun was too bright? Especially when the sun was reflecting on big, bright and beautiful fluffy clouds… and your sunnies almost didn’t help block the glare. Well I sure did, and almost daily. Coming in from spring in New Brunswick where the sky is dark and mostly cloudy and often raining…
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Where oh where has my Get Up and Go gone?
Artful Reflections Where oh where can it be? I was laying back in my gravity chair taking in all the senses a late summer day offers. When inspiration for a new blog post hit me. I was lamenting my lack of productivity and the lame excuses that I had for not painting. Hit me hard enough that I got out of the comfy gravity chair and went directly to my laptop to get it started before the MASTER Procrastinator in me could strike again and I’d put it off waiting for a rainy day. However, I am productive on rainy days. My motto has always been if the sun’s out…
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How is it July already?
How is it July already? I am in shock at how fast this year is going. Please summer, won’t you slow down just a little for us? The moods of Lac Cameron, PQ We recently travelled to Ontario and then to Quebec to visit with our family and to help them build a deck at their lakeside cottage. The lake of course, is incredibly beautiful and ever changing. I did not paint on days when we had torrential rains (well, maybe before the rain started) and with high winds. I never really considered that high temperatures would also be a deterrent. Biting bugs I understand and I regularly hide form…
