a North End Journal

I've been working much smaller recently - 12" x 12". "What You Don't See" "Adam and Eve Leav...

Now that I've passed a birthday that puts me closer to 70 than 60 I'm starting to look back over my life.   If there has been o...

I've been hooked on the abstract lately. This one, called "The Universe Unfolding ..." is totally gorgeous.  It begs ...

It amazes me how so many young women fill up the space they've been allotted. They fill it up physically, psychically, emotiona...

I was invited to a birthday party a few years ago.   I happened upon this small scrap of defiant humanity that day. She didn't ...

In the middle of November I slipped on the ice and broke my thumb. My right thumb, hand and wrist were in a cast for an eternity. And h...

This is a picture of me rejoining my blogging buddies who want to know where the Hell I've been and WTF I think I am anyway. No it ...

This picture, 'Spider Says Good-bye to Summer' is about endings. Unlike Spider I'm not saying good-bye but I am saying t...

I was about a block from the funeral home when this picture was taken.  Cpl Cirillo's cortege has just appeared. Two Canadian...

He was shot in the neck and bleeding heavily, a young First Nations  soldier named Flock out of  Stony Creek.   He had hit Ju...

Sometimes Death rides a horse. Sometimes he simply drifts down a waterway like Twelve Mile Creek. He's kind of a goofy looking f...

Americans are a patriotic bunch and as the first  Thanksgiving  happened on what is now part of the  USA and is often depicte...

Just as the mighty Niagara River flows into Lake Ontario so do a number of creeks that are found along the south-western shores of the la...

Artist's Statement I'm interested in symbols.  Not mainstream cultural symbols but personal images as they come to me in dre...

This picture is called, "The Scarf". You can see mittens at the top and cardinals on the right but mostly it is about the sca...

Just finished this one which I have named 'Feeding Frenzy" for no particular reason.  As a matter of fact the picture was done ...

Here I am.   All four of me. A part of me has weathered the storm,  some parts however, are still trapped in the  drama of it ...

A few years ago I had a dream that a large fish came out of the centre of my forehead.   I spent a lot of time massaging the area the ne...

My new picture started with a pair of bird feet.   I had been looking at one of Mark Elderkin's astonishing photos of a bird of p...

Labour Day Parade in my working class hometown  At first it seemed like divine justice. An American corporation is moving ...