If you are new to watercolour and struggling to master the basics, you have probably already discovered the biggest secret of the medium. It is not really about the paint. It is about the water. Once you understand how paper absorbs moisture, how pigment behaves, and how much water is “just right,” the medium suddenly becomes cooperative and expressive instead of unpredictable. This post is part of my Sea to Sky Beginner Landscape Classes taught live in Vancouver at Luminous

Where Culture Begins: Artist First or Institution First I did not expect to feel foreign in an arts community inside my own country. Quebec shaped me in a landscape where culture begins with people, not policy. I became an artist inside a system where you create the space first and the belonging follows. You build the doorway, and community steps through it because they feel something forming there. In Quebec, the artist is treated as the root from which culture grows. Instit

Art has always been about connection for me, between brush and canvas, light and colour, artist and viewer. Now I am ready to let that connection include myself more visibly too. So here I am. And I cannot wait to share this next chapter with you.

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