• Save the dates! You are invited: Three chances to come join me at Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar:
  

• Exhibition
  August 1 – September 7: An exhibition of all 32 of my forest paintings from both volumes, SYLVAN REFLECTIONS books, with an Opening Reception August 1, 5:30 – 7:30
  

• Special Launch Event of my new Book & Film:
  Thursday, August 8, 6:30-8:30: I’ll be launching Volume II, SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest and premiering its companion film On BEAUTY As We Come to It in the FOREST
  

• Columbia Basin Culture Tour
  Saturday & Sunday, August 10-11, 10:00-5:00: I will be in attendance at Kootenay Gallery throughout the weekend of the Culture Tour this year, surrounded by the exhibition of my paintings — with books, cards, prints and miniature original oil paintings for sale

• All the goings-on at Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar this summer!
• Save the dates! You are cordially invited to:  
  • an Exhibition of all my forest paintings, August 1 – September 7
  • a very special EVENT August 8, 6:30 – 8:30 launching my new Book & Film!
  • find me there at Kootenay Gallery this year for the Columbia Basin Culture Tour, August 10 – 11
• Hot off the easel, a new painting: Hello Darkness, My Old Friend

• Hot off the easel, new Who Rides The Mists painting!
• Film news—including NVM Film Festival this coming Saturday
• Studio News
• Upcoming book & film excerpt
• A favourite Quote

• A Solstice Gift for you!

• Hot off the easel, new “Huginn & Muninn” painting completed!
• Etsy shop updated and ON SALE! for the holidays
• Studio News
• A favourite Quote
  

• Discover Sixty-Five, Kootenay Senior Living Magazine interview
• Painting in progress “Huginn & Muninn”
• A perfect Plein Air day
• An online exhibition“The Healing Power of the Elements”
• An inspirational quote

• An invitation to the Columbia Basin Culture Tour, July 29-30, in Silverton, BC
• A new ‘Huginn & Muninn’ painting underway!
• A favourite Quote

• A new painting! ‘Autumn Triquetra’
• Notice of upcoming Columbia Basin Culture Tour
• Photos from my visit to forests in Norway and Scotland
• A favourite quote

• Latest painting completed, ‘Grandfather Stump‘
• A new poem to share, ‘Enter the Forest’
• Studio News
• a favourite Poem

As Earth spirals through her annual seasons we reach Imbolc, one of the eight Celtic celebratory marker points on our journey round the Sun, the halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. ‘Imbolc’ means ‘in the belly’, as the seeds of new life begin to stir, dreaming of birth with the coming Spring. Still celebrated in Ireland as St Brigit’s Day, it has come down to us as Groundhog Day. Celebrating the returning light here in the North. 

• A solstice gift for the longest nights of the year
• Some thoughts for Winter Solstice Season

• ‘Winter Wonder in the Woods‘, a Special Set of Art Cards and a chance to win a book, offered as part of the Slocan Valley Cheer campaign
• ‘A Wonderful Welcome Home’: a little forest essay, with a slide-show of my adventure away to the North
• Studio News
• New painting underway, ‘Grandfather Wolf‘
• A favourite Quote

• An invitation to the Columbia Basin Culture Tour, August 6-7, in Balfour, BC
• ‘Gateway’ painting done!
• ‘The Beauty of the Forest’ film progress
• A favourite Quote

•  A new ‘Gateway’ painting underway
• ‘The Lap of Mother Cedar’, a miniature painting and poem
• ‘The Healing Power of Color’, a Healing Power of Art, Manhattan Arts International exhibition
• An opportunity to ‘Paint with HU’ every Friday
• A heads up for the Columbia Basin Culture Tour this summer
• A favourite Quote

• Dancing Yew Sisters painting done, ready to share!
• A book, hot off the press, that I am so proud to be a part of: NO ORDINARY WORDS The Real Life Wisdom of Women
• An invitation to a Zoom presentation I am giving for the Women’s Wellness Circle of Barrie/Innisfil
•  A last blast of Winter’s beauty
• Manhattan Arts International online exhibition The Spirit of Resilience 2022
• A favourite quote

• A Evergreen Gift and Blessing!
• Links to my shops on Fine Art America and Etsy
  

• An Etsy Shop Sale! 25% off shop-wide in celebration of painting prints newly available there
• ‘A Sparkle of a Day in the Sleeping Forest’: forest photos as Winter descends
• Dancing Yew Sisters painting progress
• A TreeSisters collaborative poem video
• Studio News
• A favourite Quote

• A link to register for ‘Rise Up Rooted’ Symposium, where I’ll be one of the presenters!
• I’ll be interviewed tomorrow, Friday, October 15th!

• This is a Special Notice email to invite you to a wonderful FREE event I am so proud to be a part of.
• October 11-15 my friend and colleague Alex Strauss, The Mindful Walker, is hosting the RISE UP ROOTED Global Wellness Symposium and I am so very honoured to be invited to speak as a part of it.

• Save the date! Oct 11-15, ‘RISE UP ROOTED’ Wellness Symposium I am honoured to be speaking at!
• A snippet of forest beauty from the film in the works
• Painting progress
• A little pondering ‘Always Beauty’
• A favourite quote

• The beginnings of a new painting
• Filming news
• Buttercup beauty from the meadow on Solstice
• A reminder, there is still time to see The Healing Power of ART in Honor of Nature online exhibition
• My images now available on Montreal designer clothing!
• A favourite quote
• Updated Etsy shop

• A new painting!
• A little forest photo essay
• News of a new upcoming Manhattan Arts International exhibition
• Notice of an artist friend’s show and talk this weekend
• A favourite quote

• News of a new film in the works
• Portals & Passageways: a little photo essay and painting progress new
•  A few bits & bobs of news
  
• A favourite Quote

• A solstice Gift
  
• Studio News
• A beautiful new poem, ‘Winter Solstice Still’

• An offer from Fine Art America
• Two new poems of mine: “Trees are…” & “I am Earth”
• News from the studio
• Photo essay on Cedar Intimacy
• A favourite Quote

• Latest painting news
• A couple of uplifting Ponderings from the forest
• A favourite inspirational nature quote
• An Etsy shop offer

• My illustrations are featured in the upcoming book DYING IN GOOD HANDS: Palliative Massage and the Power of Touch!
• A mountainside wandering
• Progress on a new painting
  
• A previous celebration
• A favourite Poem

• A downloadable gift!
• Free viewing of the SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest film!
• Links to my shops on Fine Art America and Etsy
• A favourite quote

• Original Miniature Oil Paintings on sale this weekend!
• Special Gift Set: SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings from the Forest, book and film combined and on sale this weekend!
• A Solstice Writing
• Links to my shops on Fine Art America and Etsy
• Two favourite quotes

• A new painting!
• Notice of upcoming presentation
• A little snippet of forest beauty
• A pondering on the exquisite sadness of profound beauty
• A favourite quote

•  Notice of this weekend’s Columbia Basin Culture Tour!
• A new painting
• Latest bear encounter story
• Two favourite quotes

• A new painting, ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’!
• Notice of upcoming local events
• A little 2 minute video from the creek in the forest with a short reading on ‘Beauty’
• A forest photo piece on Devil’s Club
• Two favourite Quotes

• A wonderful array of FREE tools, resources, guidances, and inspirations to help us on our path to reawakening.
• An inspirational Quote

• Heads-up about increased emails over the next two weeks about a Spring Renewal Gift Givaway!
• My givaway item: a Guided Forest Meditation Slideshow
• I’ll be at Salmo Valley Public Library April 3rd!
• A new way to share the forest with you: a video from the creek during our last big day of snow, with an excerpt from SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest!
• Two favorite Quotes

• A complementary Deep Winter Portals print!
• A favourite Poem
• Reminder about my new merch store!

• Updated time for my interview with TreeSisters on their Facebook page!
• SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest excerpt “Cathedral”
• Reminder about my new merch store!
• A favourite Poem

• Invitation to the TreeSister’s Facebook page, where I will be giving an interview December 12
• SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest excerpt “Follow Along With Me Here, With Your Imagination”
• Reminder about my new merch store!
• A favourite Quote

• This is the first of a few extra-ordinary emails coming your way from me …for Christmas!
• SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings & Ponderings From the Forest excerpt “Snowy Cedar in Flight”
• Reminder about my new merch store!
• All sales give 5% to the charity TreeSisters!
• A favourite Poem

• Newly opened shop on FineArtAmerica.com!
  
• High quality art prints and other merch!
• Find me at the Castlegar Christmas Craft Faire or the Nelson Waldrof School Winter Faire!
  
• Highlighted painting “Cottonwood Spray”
  
• A pondering on “Outside My Window In the Night”

• Invitation to the Glade Market August 26
  
• Come find me at Naksup Public Library September 27
• Recently completed painting, ‘FIR, SOFT & THICK’
• A pondering on Wildfire Season
  

• Latest painting completed, ‘A Wide Open Winter Wonder‘
• Event: A Summer Soiree, July 22nd
  
• Event: Columbia Basin Culture Tour, August 11-12
• A 21-minute SYLVAN RELFECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings and Ponderings from the Forest film!
  
• I recorded a guided meditation on Insight Timer!
• I was interviewed by Kathleen Brigidina, the Creative Liasion for TreeSisters!

• I published an article in the November 2017 edition of One Thousand Trees: Facilitating Wellness through Connection, Creativity, and Community Service going into my personal process to produce stories for SYLVAN REFLECTION!
• Painting news!
• A First-Snow Story
• I’ll be at the Winter Wonderland Fair on December 16
• TreeSisters news!
• A new favorite Quote

• The Columbia Basin Culture Tour is this weekend!
• Signed books are available on tour
• New partnership with TreeSisters!
• A pondering on Surrender
  
• A new Quote

• I’ll be at the RANDOM ACTS OF CREATIVITY along with Claire Chilton and Vallican Whole Community Choir!
  
• A new poem, ‘A Perfect June Day’
• Thanks for those who came to my book launch and bought my book!
• Other upcoming events!
• a new quote
  

• New book launch date for SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, paintings and Ponderings from the Forest
  
• Latest painting news
  
• Studio News
• a lovely quote

There is still a couple of feet of snow in my neck of the woods, but Spring is in the air, all waters are rushing, earth is soft with saturation and there is heat in the Sun’s rays when they do peak out. 

• Sincere thanks for those coming to see the SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings and Ponderings book launch events
  
• Sad personal news
  
• A few book passages
  
• An old painting not in a previous newsletter
• A favourite quote

• Big news! My new book SYLVAN REFLECTIONS: Wanderings, Paintings and Ponderings from the Forest is out!
  
• Book tour dates!
• The book trailer!
  
• Excerpts from the introduction!
• Press release excerpts!

I can’t wait to present it to you and see what you think of it!

• Invitation to my newest showing
  
• Book progress update
  
• A recent Pondering
• A couple favourite quotes

• A new film!
  
• A new website!
• New painting in progress!
• A forest rambling!