The latest monoprint. 12 x 16 inches.

It's almost the end of December. I feel that I've accomplished the goal I had set in the new year, work wise. (Everything else-wise is another story.) Next year, however, things will be a little different. In February I head to the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture in Dawson City in the Yukon for a one-month drawing and printing residency, followed by an exhibition. I've known about this for the better part of the last year, and am excited by the fact I'll be able to devote a considerable amount of time to creative work, without distractions, without other work ... but I'll be away from my (at that time) 7-month old baby, and I won't be working ... so I'm a little stressed out as well.

I haven't been able to get as much prep work done for the residency and exhibition as I thought I would. Hopefully, this January will give me some time to prepare. I'm not sure where the work on my monoprints and smaller run pieces will go come the new year - and what this blog will end up looking like ... but I suppose that a certain clarity will come from my new year's reflections (and certainly not from my current brain-state, which has been rendered slow and syrupy from all the Christmas shortbreads and fizzy drinks.)

I have prints up along with those of other artists in the following Montreal locations over the holiday period and into January :

Monastiraki - 5478 St. Laurent (at St-Viateur)

Frame & Canvas - 220 Bernard ouest (at Esplanade)

Une grenouille dans la théière - 5940 St-Hubert (at Bellechasse)

That's all for now!

A fairly festive (or perhaps apocalyptic) monoprint from the stacks. Holiday season has definitely started over at our place. Four litres of home-made eggnog to go through before New Year's!

I am still in the studio a lot, but experimenting with technique and process rather than working on specific series of prints. I've got a hectic/different/interesting few months coming up print-wise ...

This new print is 11 x 13 inches. It's three colours and entitled "Flooding". I am selling these and other prints at Puces Pop's December sale on Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th at Église St-Michel in Montreal (105 St-Viateur West). Hope to see you there!

A monoprint today. This one is 15" x 20". I'd been working on this one for a while.

Just got back from selling prints at Expozine, where I had a wonderful time as usual, although I never got out once to look around at what seemed (from my vantage point) to be an astoundingly amazing collection of really creative work in the alternative press world. Next year, maybe (although I say that every year, now, I'm a broken record).

This is the last city print I did for Expozine and likely the last to come for a while. "Chicago" is three colours and 11x14 inches.

Several recent monoprints. I will take these to Expozine this weekend.