Month: May 2020

modern day superheroes


 
As National Nurses Week begins a chance to say thank you to a lifetime of nursing colleagues and dear friends. They are all amazing and those on the frontline everyday are true modern day superheroes.

mums for mums


 
Happy Mother’s Day to the awe-inspiring mums in our family and to all mums everywhere, especially the healthcarehero mums working on the frontline. We thank and love you all.❤️

social distancing – what’s that?

 

I thought I would repost this from six years ago today when if you had asked someone what “social distancing” meant they might have thought you were referring to how essential having First Class travel was on British Rail so that one didn’t have to sit with the riffraff in Second Class. Now, here we are six years later and the meaning couldn’t be clearer.

 

On The Move To Waterloo  May 9, 2014

 

Waterloo iv

 

Waterloo i

 

Waterloo ii

 

 

I hope you are all now moving to one of Abba’s greatest hits, Waterloo.  I certainly am!

 

VEDay75


 
Victory Square in Vancouver today on the 75th Anniversary of VE Day marking the end of the war in Europe in which 1.1 million Canadians served and 45,000 payed the ultimate price. The square has been planted with tulips in the form of the emblematic remembrance poppy.
 

Lest we forget.

looking up and looking back

 

Pacific Spirit Canopy  3.8.15

With our daily walks in the Pacific Spirit Park it seems like a good time to look back to some of the paintings that walking in the Park inspired five years ago.

 

Studio 365: Day 216

 

Day 216 i    Day 216 ii Day 216 iii    Day 216 iv

 

Pacific Spirit Park Variations I – IV 4.8.15

Canada Remembers


 
On the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands by the Canadian Armed Forces what better way with which to honour them all than with these Dutch tulips in triumphant bloom on our deck in today’s glorious sunshine.
 

 

Lest we forget.
 

🇨🇦

surprise in the skies


 

A surprise siting in the sky above the Pacific Spirit Park today.

May the fourth be with you

the meeting point


 
When the Science of Medicine meets the Art of Medicine to save lives in the COVID unit at Vancouver General Hospital.
 
ECMO stands for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation but could also stand for Ever Compassionate Medical Optimism, thanks to the dedication of our frontline healthcare workers epitomized by the caring nurse-specialist portrayed in the picture.
 
Thanks to Dr. Adam Thomas for his photograph that was the inspiration for my drawing.

when art is prescient


 
This little water-colour of Spanish Banks from five years ago seems somewhat prescient today.