Daily painting is a practice to improve painting skill.  Every discipline has a practice: scales in music,  bar work in ballet. After a trip Italy, I decided to paint daily...and did all through February. Then my practice  became sketchy.  Now, after a trip to Italy,  I want to resume this practice.  Here is a new painting available by auction at dailypaintworks.com  Take a look: Water Weeds

Tuscany & Lilies

New paintings of Tuscany from recent trip to Montisi are available now at Daily Paintworks .  And I've also added a new painting to be auctioned off: Two Lilies  See Daily Paintworks

Also in the October Issue of The Tishman Review you can enjoy two of my lily paintings: http://www.thetishmanreview.com/The Tishman Review full color.

Two Lilies  (Available at Daily Paintworks)

View from Il Poggio

Sheep Tree

Unclad Art Show

Please attend the UNCLAD Art Shoe held in Edmonds, Washington, March 18-20 at the Edmonds Yacht Club.  The show includes 90 artists working in a variety of styles. Opening night Gala tickets, public hour tickets and life drawing Marathon can be purchased at uncladartshow.com See more at https://www.facebook.com/uncladart/videos 

Elevation: The Art of Cascadia

Here's the information about the Art of Cascadia show opening February 5th, 6-9.  Hope you can join me at Allied Arts to see my work and the work of Ron Pattern, Lanny Little, Anita Boyle, and others. Allied Arts in Whatcom County located downtown on Cornwall

Friday, February 5, 6:00-9:00 pm Elevation kicks off with a bang during Art Walk on with exhibits at: Allied Arts Gallery (1418 Cornwall Ave.) work by some of our finest painters and mixed-media artists, all of it inspired by our local natural beauty. Painters Nancy Canyon, Lanny Little, Yvette Neumann and Ron Pattern will be joined by mixed-media artists Anita K. Boyle and Graham Schodda. The opening reception starts at 6 pm and features live classical guitar by Walt Burkett. This exhibit will be on display through the end of February, the Allied Arts Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 10am - 5pm, and Saturday, 12-5pm. Old Dakota Art Space (1415 Cornwall Ave., directly across the street from the gallery) Photography holds center stage with 15 of our finest nature photographers showing their Cascadia-inspired work. One of the largest photography exhibitions ever presented in Bellingham, it will feature Brett Baunton, Mark Bergsma, John D'Onofrio, Lance Ekhart, Tommy Gibson, David Inscho, Kenni Merritt, Daniel Nylen, Tore Ofteness, Ken Osthimer, Andy Porter, Alan Sanders, Helen Scholtz, Mark Turner and Dennis Walton. Here too, the opening reception starts at 6 pm and features live music from the Prozac Mountain Boys and fresh local ale from Kulshan Brewery. This exhibit will be on display through the end of February, the space will be open Thursday- Saturday, 12-5pm or by appointment with Allied Arts Staff. Hatch 2.0 (221 Prospect St.). Sculptor Denise Snyder and painter Mary Jo Maute will be joined by some of our finest improvising musicians led by Steve Jones in an art/music performance entitled The Nature of Form and Color moved with Sound. Designed to bring viewers into the creative process, they will create art and music together on the fly. Downtown Bellingham Visitor's Center (1306 Commercial Street) Michael Heath and Tom McCalla exhibiting their local landscape watercolor paintings. Hotel Bellwether (1 Bellwether Way) David Valdez digital landscape photography. Saturday, February 6 9:00-12:00 Workshop Terry Halbert: Digital Photography (Allied Arts Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Ave) Join American landscape Photographer Terry Halbert for an inspiring free three-hour instructional class that will take you from camera basics to seeing a new artistic vision of the world. 2:00 pm Presentation Susan Conrad: Solo Paddle from Anacortes to Alaska (Susan's new book will be published this spring!) The Idiom Theatre (1418 Cornwall Ave.) will host Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage, a presentation by Susan Conrad at 2 pm. Susan paddled her kayak on an epic solo 66-day journey from Anacortes to Juneau, Alaska.  5:00-6:30 Presentation Terry Halbert: Expedition America - a National Park Odyssey (Allied Arts Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Ave) Stevie and Terry Halbert quit their jobs, loaded their belongings into their Volkswagen EuroVan and set out for a year long adventure to see all of America's National Parks. Come meet Stevie and Terry and hear about their year long Odyssey and see their 27 minute video through America's natural wonders, its national parks and its people. 7:00 pm Multimedia Presentation A Love Song For Cascadia in the Old Dakota Art Space. The presentation features projected images by Brett Baunton, John D'Onofrio, Lance Ekhart and Dennis Walton, accompanied by poets James Bertolino and Anita K. Boyle and Native American Flute master Gary Stroutsos (whose flute was featured in Ken Burns' documentary series, Lewis and Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery). Sunday, February 7 11 am Workshop Night Sky photography workshop led by photographer Andy Porter. at the Old Dakota Art Space (1415 Cornwall Ave.)  Friday, February 26 Recreation NW Expo 4-8 pm Depot Market Square (1100 Railroad Ave.) This is your chance to connect with the active outdoor community. 50+ exhibitors and 700 runners, bikers, sailors, paddlers, and others who are looking for new ways to play outside. Saturday, February 27  Excursions and Tours: Throughout Whatcom County, we will be connecting people with outfitters, tour guides and other professionals to get out and see the sights and insights into local businesses! Seeking VolunteersWe can't make awesome programs like this happen without the helping hands of people like you. So if you are interested in helping out with this event, click here to sign up today!

Whatcom Artist Studio Tour 2015

Here we go again!  This weekend and next from 10-5 each day, stop at 30 some artists and their studio and view/purchase some amazing art.  If you will, stop and say hi to me.  I'm at 1000 Harris, #6 in the Morgan Block Building.  Hope to see you soon.

White of Clouds

Whatcom Artist Studio Tour

Be sure to stop by the Morgan Block Studios for the tour the first two weekends of October.  Five artists in my building will be open 10-5 Saturday and  Sundays with a plethora of fabulous paintings, pottery and jewelry.  Many artists take Visa/MasterCard.  See us at 1000 Harris.  I am on the second floor, # 6.

Reflection on Lake P added

on Lake P added

Be sure to stop by Lucia Douglas Gallery in Fairhaven and see my reflection paintings.  Also take in the great show by Thomas Wood.  You'll be surprised and fascinated by his surreal imagery.  My pieces are hung in the small room (office) through March 22.  

Lucia Douglas Gallery 1415 13th St, Bellingham, WA 98225 (360) 733-5361

Studio 21, Morgan Block Building, 1000 Harris #6, Bellingham, WA

Here I am in the studio...this was taken a little over a year ago, in my old studio.  I don't have quite as much wall space in my new studio, but the windows are great and the view of the water lovely. If you are interested in making art with me or writing with me, please call or email: wildcanyons@msn.com  I'd be happy to set up individual time or to arrange an art party with your friends.  Six to eight seems to be a good number.  We can make books or collages or multi-media boxes. Or we can have a journal writing workshop...it's a great experience working together. Let me know...   Happy New Year!

Photo Credit Ann Marie Cooper

Journal Workshop Coming this Spring

Happy New Year!  2014 is going to be a good year for integration...male and female energies join together within each of us.  I'm following the astrological forecasts and the strength penetrating us now can be projected or owned.  My advice, let go of petty seeming injustices and live in the now. What we want in life will embody us...from a place of strength and truth.  It's written in the stars. Here's a little piece from my Italy journal.  This is good...combining male and female into one being. 

From Italy Journal

New Work

Cottonwoods, 18" x 25", sumi on rice paper, 495.00

Fall Alders, 12 x12, SOLD

In the Giant's Garden 14"x14", 395.00

Lilies and Shadows SOLD

Spider Lily 14"x 14" Acrylic on Canvas 395.00

Studio 21

I'm standing in the doorway of my studio...#6, in the Morgan Block Building.  It's where I paint and where I hold writing practice.  I'm open to the public by appointment...710-7139.  Call me and we'll set up a time.

Lucia Douglas Gallery Opening January 30th, 5-7

Alders on Padden 24 x24

Lucia Douglas Gallery will be showing my work and the work of two other artists in February.  Be sure to mark your calendar and come to the opening January 30th, Thursday 5-7.  I have my back up job teaching starting at 6:30...so will only be able to attend from 5-6.  See me then at 1415 13th St, Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 733-5361

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The Hair Art Gallery

Opening at The Hair Art Gallery, December 6th.  Show runs through December.  The salon is right next to the old museum on Prospect.

Large Format Paintings

Reflection

Corn N' Tomatoes

Reflection on Padden Creek

This painting was in the Fate of the Forest show in Bellingham Lightcatcher Museum throughout the summer of 2011.  It is the first painting in my new series: Reflecting on the Seasons.  I can be reached at 1000 Harris, Suite 21, Fairhaven, Washington, where I work in an artist studio.  Also see http://artcanyon.blogspot.com and www.nancycanyon.com.