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Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Elk Falls – version 01, Vancouver Island, BC Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, 27H x 33W” framed size – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Won Honorable Mention in Fusion Arts Waterscapes 2026.
Also in the exhibition is Moody Weather – Stormy Oregon Coast, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. The Art Exhibition will be featured on Fusion Art Gallery’s website homepage for 3 months.
Our Power, Our Planet
Friday, April 17th, 2026
Prairie Dogs, the Badlands Hoodoos near Drumheller, Alberta Canada. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, 27H x 33W” framed size – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish. Showcased online at KBM Art Gallery, presenting “Our Power, Our Planet 2026” April 18th through May 29th.
The Canadian Badlands in Alberta and Saskatchewan are recognized for unusual mudstone and sandstone landscape formations, and also for having the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world. The geography in Horseshoe Canyon, Alberta is ancient, unique and incredible, and the prairie dogs – locals call them “gophers” – are an impactful part of prairie ecology, having extensive influence on vegetation and animal life. They live in colonies of up to several thousand, burrowing in networks of tunnels where other ground-dwelling creatures move in, various grass species are maintained, and rainwater is reserved and redirected.
They are cute to be sure, sitting up on their haunches chirping at one another, but they can be a nuisance to farmers whose horses and cattle can trip in the holes. Pest control programs during the 1900’s meant their numbers have declined, which congruently reduced acres of grasslands they helped sustain. As their own highways became populated with humans and cars, particularly during Springtime they are a road hazard.
In Torrington, Alberta, one lady has found a creative way to utilize the unfortunate casualties. You must visit The World-Famous Gopher Hole Museum located in the middle of nowhere, in a small hamlet where there is not even a gas station, along a seemingly endless dusty gravel road about an hour Northwest of Drumheller. Gophers are stuffed, sporting handmade costumes and placed in small cubicles displaying historic scenes. Completely bizarre, but actually very well done and absolutely worth the conversation-provoking side-trip if you are planning to visit Drumheller and the Tyrell Dinosaur Museum.
Back Alley
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Back Alley, winter in Edmonton AB, Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Gold In The Mountains 04
Monday, November 10th, 2025
Gold In The Mountains 04, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. A favorite subject, Poplar trees and forest in the mountains of Kananaskis Valley near Calgary, Alberta in Fall.
Landscapes
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Serenity, 16H x 20W inches soft pastels on WC paper (2020), 22H x 26W” framed size
Loon Lake Loop, BC 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Both are showcased in Artist Space Gallery’s Landscapes Exhibition through August.
Loon Lake Loop
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Loon Lake Loop rest stop, Arrowsmith Viewpoint, Alberni Highway 4, Vancouver Island BC, Canada. 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Landscape
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Elk Falls (version 2), Vancouver Island, BC and Cape Meares Fog (Oregon), each 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Both won Honorable Mention in Teravarna Gallery’s online 11th Landscape International Juried Art Competition, February 2025.
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Shooting Star
Saturday, December 21st, 2024
Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia) BC wildflower, Vancouver Island, Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper
“Landscapes” Exhibition
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
Heber River, BC Canada, 27H x 33W inches framed, soft pastels on paper is showcased in The Artist Space Gallery’s “Landscapes” Exhibition through October, then archived for a year.
Haida Design carving, Campbell River BC
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Haida Design Shoreline Carving, Campbell River BC, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. There are so many beautiful sculptures along the shore here, but no information online about this wood carving. Every summer Campbell River hosts a chainsaw carving competition, so I assume this is one of the pieces created during one of those events.