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Monday, October 19th, 2026
Sugar Maple Leaves, (2021) Nappanee ON Canada, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Native to eastern Canada and the U.S., sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum) are the showiest variety during Autumn, with colder nights producing deeper red colors. The sugar maple leaf is the central emblem on the Canadian flag. With hardwood lumber used for furniture and flooring, they are also the primary source of maple syrup.
Will be showcased in Biafarin / Exhibizone’s Seasons: Fall 2026 Exhibition opening October 24th.
Rood Bridge Park Forest
Thursday, October 8th, 2026
Rood Bridge Park Forest, Hillsboro OR. A beautiful Autumn morning in a local forest where light, shadows, shapes and colors merge, are sorted and reassembled in this frenetic composition.
18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. 27H x 33W” framed size – white mat and custom-built white wood frame with crackle finish.
Wahkeena Falls, OR
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Wahkeena Falls, OR, 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.
Autumn Leaves, Trask River OR
Monday, September 29th, 2025
Autumn Leaves, Trask River, Oregon 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper (2020), 27H x 33W inches framed size (2021). White mat, white wood frame with crackle finish. Showcased in Biafarin/Exhibizone’s international online exhibition, Seasons: Fall 2025, October 1st through December 1st.
European Mountain Ash Leaves and Berries
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
European Mountain Ash Leaves and Berries, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.
Frosty Grass
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Frosty Grass, 27H x 33W inches soft pastels on paper, white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish. Initially drawn and posted on Feb. 27th, ‘Frosty Grass’ will be showing in Exhibizone’s online exhibition, “Seasons: Spring 2024” April 1st – July 1st. In the Exhibizone competitions viewers decide the viewing order.
Sun Shower
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Sun Shower, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.
Postcards From The Island
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
While on holiday here in Campbell River BC, I found a set of 24 watercolor pencils in a second-hand shop for only $2, and a pack of 4 x 6″ watercolor paper postcards for only 50 cents. During the next week (only while I’m here) I plan to paint small sketch-series of local sights.
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Creative Minds 2023
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
Cycad Leaf Fossil Chair, homage to the history of Earth, 29H x 29W x 29D inches up-cycled plastic vintage chair base, woven canvas strips, layers of plaster gradually cured, sanded and carved. Painted with acrylics, finished with varnish, and waxed to enhance colors. Functional art, very comfortable, durable. Now being showcased at Creative Minds – 2023 exhibition, August 15 – Oct. 15, organized by Exhibizone and powered by @Biafarin platform.
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The front of this chair is a rendition of the fossil of a Cycad leaf from the first species of palm-like trees that grew about 50 million years ago. The original Cycad leaf fossil was discovered in a Wyoming riverbed. The circumference on the back of this chair has an informal mosaic embedded with pebbles and authentic fossils of an extinct clam I found in a playground in the Dallas, Texas area. The extinct genus of shells called Myalina are estimated to be 345 – 225 – million years old.
Completing the back of the chair, the surface is textured along with patterns of the bark and leaf scars of a fossilized Paleozoic Lepidodendron, a primitive species of the very first trees on earth, reaching heights of 130 feet (40 m) tall, with leaves that grew flat directly along the bark around 400 million years ago.