was on the wall in the office at
Seneca King campus, and has
since disappeared. If you know
was not sold.)
I started this blog 18 years ago today -- and it does feel
like yesterday. My artist friend Flora Doehler
was blogging, and wanted me to try, but I resisted. I'm so
glad that I begin it on this day -- the blog completely changed
my life!
Now for 18 reasons to be grateful
1. Thank you Flora for suggesting that I start a blog. You were so right.
2. Thank you to my son Christopher for getting the blog
going, before he and his girlfriend (now wife) Megan went
to teach for a year in Korea.
3. Thank you to all of my blog friends, the people still
blogging remain blog friends after all these years, and
we meet on Instagram and Facebook. I've met some of
you in person, and it that is just so joyous and
such a delight. And some of us talk on the phone
once a week if at all possible.
4. Thank you to Howard Wolinsky who saw my blog in
2008 and interviewed me on YouTube about blogging. His
interview got me on the Oprah Winfrey show.
5. Thank you to Alyson Stanfield, the Art Biz coach, who
calmed me down before I went on the Oprah Winfrey show
with excellent advice.
6. Thank you to Oprah Winfrey for letting me draw her
via Skype in 2009 live on her show. That event totally
changed my art life.
7. Thank you to the art collectors and galleries, (special
thanks to the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York
City) for supporting me along the way. You are the best!
8. Thank you to all of the artists blogging, using Instagram,
YouTube, and Facebook, for your exceptional art, excellent
ideas, and inspiration that has kept me going in the art world.
9. Thank you to the wonderful event organizers who have
found me through the blog and invited me to show in Florence,
Italy, Paris, France, New York City, Niagara Falls and
my home city of Toronto, Canada. You've made my art
life miraculous.
10. Thank you Alyson Stanfield for your wonderful book--
I'd Rather Be In The Studio for the book's excellent advice.
11. Thank you to the Don Valley Art Club in Toronto for
its weekly drawing group sessions, where I've loved
painting and drawing with fellow artists on Tuesdays and
getting material for my blog.
12. Thank you to the Heliconian Club in Toronto for its
wonderful exhibition space, and for having me as a member.
I am going to be in a show at the club called The Colour of Light
with Henrietta Walmark and Vivian East in April.
13. Thank you to the beautiful young women who posed
for the painting in my first blog, which you can see tonight.
14. Thank you to my early art teachers at OCAD who got me
working in a way that could help me make the art I wanted to
create, and to every in person, and online art teacher I've had since.
You make a huge difference.
15. Thank you to Christine Arthurs and Catherine Maunsell from
the Heliconian Club who helped me get my solo show together
in April 2025.
16. Thank you to my studio cat Monet, and studio dog Sally, who
entertain me when I need a break.
17. Thank you to all of my friends who come out to shows, buy art,
commission me, and are absolutely amazing friends. You mean the
world to me.
18. And first, not last, thank you to my family -- My husband, immediate
family, and a wide group of people here in Toronto, across Canada,
and in the United States.
Have a loving your life day!
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