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Nursing: An Art & a Science - exhibition at University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba is having an art exhibition for Nursing Week, featuring works by graduates of the Faculty of Nursing. My painting, Bridging the Gap, was originally created as a reflection on my nursing practice at the request of colleagues teaching nursing at Red River College, as an exemplar for a creative reflection assignment.

Convergence, and Bamboo

Convergence is the point where lines or objects meet. Here light and dark, bright and dull, collide. Opposing ideas bounce off each other and fragment.

This is an impression of a photo taken by my friend Cate Keating. Bamboo, seen against a purple wall. The photo is sharp and clear. My impression is of the colours, seen through a downpour or watering eyes, lines blur and smudge together. 

Encaustic is fantastic

I took an encaustic painting class at the cre8ery today. What a lot of fun! Created 5 small paintings, just playing around with it. I will definitely do more of this!

Work in progress

I can't decide if this is finished or not. I think it still needs something but what??

When I was 7, I took art classes at the Brandon Art Centre. We had a show, and my teacher entered two of my paintings. One, depicting a school of fish, sold for the great sum of $5! The other was this painting of a bear and a partridge in a winter forest. This year I thought it would be fun to paint the bear again, in his adulthood. So here he is, the Winter Bear, 46 years later. (The absence of the partridge has no great significance other than it seems I can't paint a credible bird!)

Well, it's been a while but I was finally back in the studio today. I did some work on this painting, which started out as a watery green undersea image but when I tried to add a few fish they looked terrible and I was afraid I had ruined it. I'm liking it more now and musing about what it has evolved into. Still under the sea, I think. Perhaps water sprites? ghosts of the deep? fish in camouflage? I'll have to live with it for a while to see how it speaks to me.