Raven's Guidebook

Here's a new photomontage titled "Raven's Guidebook", combining my own photos with vintage imagery and a touch of distressing. I just delivered a mixed media version of this (ready to hang, mounted on a cradled art board with encaustic medium overlay) to the Saskatchewan Craft Council Affinity Gallery (Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon) for the ongoing members' show if you want to check it out. The show continues until August 29th, but note that as pieces are sold, they get taken home by the purchaser on the spot, so this one might not still be around if you wait. 

Wide Awake

Here's one version of a new one I'm working on. I have a couple of other directions that are similar but different, whatever that means. This makes extensive use of my collection of vintage Victorian and Edwardian era graphics, with only the raven and the insects having been generated by my camera.  It has a vaguely Steampunk feel, or at least gives a nod in that direction, which in my world these days is a good thing.

Echoes of the past

I come across a lot of abandoned buildings and farmsteads in my wanderings around the countryside, and have always felt the need to preserve the images of this part of the prairie heritage. Each of these old structures has a story to tell-----