I'm delighted to have a painting included in this year's International Watercolour Festival in Calgary. Although I won't be attending in person, if you're in Calgary, I highly recommend checking it out. In addition to the exhibition, the festival features demonstrations, workshops, and Plein Air outings, making it a wonderful celebration of watercolour and a great opportunity to connect with artists and fellow art lovers.
For this exhibition, I chose to submit something a little different from my usual landscapes, a figurative painting. It was a rewarding challenge to explore a new subject while continuing to work in watercolour, and I'm excited to have it included alongside so many talented artists.
If you're able to attend, I hope you enjoy everything the festival has to offer!

Hello everyone,
I'm now on Instagram under gail_watercolour. This is where I've been posting a few of my #sketches, #paintings, # plein air studies and details of my work. Hope you visit!

Hello everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying the summer now that the warm weather has finally arrived!
Last month I was painting in the area where I reside (HRM), as part of the Parrsboro Plein Air Festival in ISOLATION. It was certainly something new for most of us (and personally out of my comfort zone), as we had to film ourselves before the event and while we were painting. It was great learning and seeing where everyone was painting from, hearing their stories and slowly watch some of the painting emerge. I think the organizers did an excellent job!
Here's the link if you'd like to see the final results or learn more about the artists, judges, organizers....: https://parrsborocreative.com/pleinair/pipaf-in-isolation/
An unusual thing also happened to me while painting during this event, which I have never experienced before. I sometimes tap my brush on a roll of toilet paper (instead of a sponge...), to remove extra moisture, but this time I started to notice little bits (of what I first thought was pigment or old paint), all over my painting. I finally realized it was the toilet paper which had started to disintegrate! Too funny really... leave it to a COVID event to make me aware that not all toilet paper is created equally:)!  Hope you are all doing well, staying safe and thanks for visiting my blog!

Pleased to hear that my painting "White Point" was among those selected and published for the Readers Competition in The Art of Watercolour! Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Pleased to be featured in the 3rd edition (December 2018), of the Friends of Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Newsletter. 

​CSPWC 93rd Annual Open Water Juried Exhibition 2018  ~ Transparent Watercolour Exhibition
JOHN B. AIRD GALLERY  ~ 900 Bay St., Toronto, Ontario
​Opening Reception, Thursday, October 4th, 6 - 8 pm