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*art never sleeps*

🇨🇦 Vancouver BC
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Remembering these young women who lost their lives on
Dec 6, 1989 in a brazen anti-feminist attack at Polytechnique in Montreal.

#endviolenceagainstwomen #restinpeace
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Work in progress
20x20” (cropped)
Acrylic on canvas
#artwork #canadianart #artneversleeps #acrylicpainting #vancouversrtist
Leafless trees stand before a wintery sky and reflect in patches of puddle water
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Tell Vancouver City Council to protect decades of progress
act.stand.earth/page/90450/a...
#vancouverpoli #climateaction #progressiveaction
[URGENT] Protect Vancouver from cowardly budget cuts
Decades of progress toward making Vancouver a greener and more livable city are on the line
act.stand.earth
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Evergreen and maple
#trees #firs #maple #understory #evergreen #forest #naturephotography #autumnleaves
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Lindens dressed for Halloween
#vancouver #fallcolours #fallcolours #autumnleaves #lindentrees #yellow #sidewalk
Brilliant yellow leaves on a row of linden trees also cover the sidewalk below in a vibrant carpet.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Work in progress
Acrylic on canvas, 12x12”
#acrylicpainting #painting #art #artwork #wipart #willow #willowleaves #autumn #reflection #floating #canadianart #artist #inevitablebeauty #beautyindecay #trees
Floating, falling willow leaves in earthy autumn tones are suspended on the surface of a dark puddle that reflects bare branches and a hint of sky.
September 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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This is the last piece I’m working on for my show next month.
Acrylic on canvas 24x40” wip, cropped
#wipart #acryliconcanvas #acrylicpainting #canadianart #art #artwork
#leaves #painting #beauty #beautyindecay
Multi-coloured willow leaves collect at a puddle’s edge in the autumn while bare branches and the sky’s reflection add watery surroundings.
September 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It’s a summer thing
Acrylic on canvas, 36x18” cropped detail
#art #artwork #wipart #wip #workinprogress #summer #roses #butterflywings #acrylicpainting #canadianartist #contemporaryart
Acrylic painting in bright pastels and prismatic colours show dreamlike summer subjects such as roses, locust trees, swallowtail wings and shards of prismatic light. What will show up next? Work in progress.
August 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Hot off the digital highway! I’m pleased to announce my group show on Bowen Island with Salmon Arm artist Sara Weins and Vancouver potter, Ilena Lee Cramer. I’ve been painting like mad.
#canadianartists #acrylicpainting #artwork #bowenisland #pottery #groupshow #aninevitablebeauty #beauty
Poster for group exhibit An Inevitable Beauty : what was lost is found again in paint and clay. Bright yellow lettering is underlaid with a watery image of cottonwood leaves floating on dark water.
August 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Trio of smalls
Acrylic on canvas
10x10”
#wip #artwork #acrylicpainting #silvermaple #leaves #puddle #sky #reflection #art #artneversleeps #canadianart #canada #smallart
August 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Pretty l’il garden buddy
Upper tentacles to see
Lower tentacles to smell
#snail #slowdown #urbanwildlife #tentacles #naturephotography #gastropod #terrestrialmollusk #shell
A bright yellow shell with chocolate-coloured stripes sits atop a silvery-blue snail stretched long from tentacle tip to tail. Worn wood provides the background.
August 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Still a work in progress
Acrylic on canvas
36x18”
#artwork #acrylicpainting #wipart #abstractart #vancouverart #canadianart #butterflywings #summer #paint #colors #colours #light #prism
Shapes in bright colours of early summer are lit with refractive beams and swirl with swallowtail wings.
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Work in progress
Acrylic on canvas 20x20”
#art #artwork #acryliconcanvas #acrylicpainting #artneversleeps #vancouverartist #canadianart #leaves #cottonwood #blue #mood #wip
Pondside cottonwood trees lose leaves in the fall breeze to watery surroundings, told in blue hues laced with violets and whites.
July 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Friday buzz
#bees #honeybees #allium #flowers #summer #buzz #communitygarden #garden #friday #tgif
July 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Happy to be blue
#hydrangeas #blue #flowers #bluemood #gardenphotography #iloveplants
July 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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A seed begins to form in the withering flower of the tulip tree #liriodendron #liriodendrontulipifera #tuliptree #treeflowers #tree #seed #trees #beautyindecay #nature #flower
July 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Often the beginning is my favourite part
#artwork #contemporaryart #acrylicpainting #canadianart #abstractart #summer #colour #newwork
July 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Art never sleeps
#chalkart #sidewalkart #art #publicart #artwork #community #artneversleeps
June 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Newly finished 12 x 20” #acrylicpainting #artwork #cottonwoodleaves #floating #art #painting #vancouverartist #reflection #abscission
June 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Now showing

#cornuskousa #koreandogwood #kousadogwood #tree #floweringtree #cornus #vancouver #beauty #gardenphotography #naturephotography #flowerphotography
A cascade of creamy white four-petalled flowers of the Korean dogwood
June 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I’ve been working on this for about a month and I think it’s close to done. We shall see - I like to look at my paintings for a while before I finish them up with varnish and hangers.
This Is Water, acrylic on canvas, 24x36 in
#art #artneversleeps
#artwork #painting #acrylicpainting #leaves #water
Maple leaves float on a puddle that reflects a bright blue sky swirling with veils of thin clouds and bare tree branches. Acrylic on canvas 2 feet high by 3 feet wide.
May 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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It’s peak laburnum flowering season at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver.

#vancouver #vandusen #laburnumwalk
A pathway under a canopy of cascading goldenchain laburnum flowers is lined with purple alliums and bluebells creating a heavenly setting laced with sweet fragrance.
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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One second rest

#lupine #bumblebee #pollinator #flowers #insects #naturephotography
A bumblebee with folded wings rests on a purple lupine flower. Its pollen sacks are full and orange.
May 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Just in a purple haze for now

#purplehaze #lilacs #syringa #purple #haze #flowers #beauty #inhale
May 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Decor at Los Cuervos
#vancouver #mexicanfood #sabroso #artwork #artneversleeps
May 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM