Picture"What's for Dinner?", Watercolour, 14" x 11" -
A series of photographs taken by a friend depicting life and death on the Oxbow Creek behind her home in Penticton, British Columbia,provided inspiration for this painting. Capturing images of this roosting family of Great Horned Owls confirmed why she hadn’t seen many ducklings in the creek that summer.



 Picture"She Just Makes You Smile!", Watercolour, 11" x 8"
With soft fur and drive-by licks and intelligence
our little Morkie is such a blessing in our life.
Ptarmigan, wildlife painting, birds, "Ptarmigan", Acrylic, 18" x 24" -


The rock ptarmigan is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family. It is known simply as the Ptarmigan in the UK and in Canada, where it is the official bird for the territory of Nunavut, and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador,and colloquially as the Snow Chicken  in the Untired States.
In Japan it is known as the raichou (雷鳥), which means ‘thunder bird’.   It is the official bird of Toyama Prefecture and it a protect species nationwide




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