What’s your name? – Alison What’s your best advice to young women? – Take breaks And to young men? – Notice your surroundings, and stand up where necessary. What’s your Five-Year Plan? – Five-year? This is 2020. No one makes 5 year plans anymore. Six months is more like it. What’s on your lap? – […]
The Reinventionist
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
My brain cells were popcorn listening to Joe Jackman in conversation with Tara Hunt and Stefani Forster for the Anatomy of a Strategy Podcast (July 5, 2020 episode). As Joe says, “The future arrives daily. Create it now. Get it out of the lab. You don’t need to place big bets. Be thoughtful about where […]
Covid-19 Poster
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
Guess what? I added your suggestions and created “Business Is Up – Part Deux” THE POSTER (11”x17”) ✏️ In mid-March, still stunned that gyms and restaurants had suddenly evaporated, ☁️ I started pulling together a list of businesses that were growing during the Coronavirus Pandemic. 📈 I posted the first edition on Instagram last week, […]
Hotel Art
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
In 2018, the designers at Mason Studio commissioned me to paint a series of tiny watercolour portraits for the Kimpton Hotel in Toronto. It was a cross section of local talent, from Drake and Deepa Mehta to Frank Gehry and Robbie Robertson. The small format makes you lean in and listen hard to their secrets […]
Custom portraits
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
If you haven’t heard of Dawn Bazley, you’ve seen her on TV (@CBC) talking about the proper way to use masks during #Covid19. @DrBazley is field biologist, #STEMStar, and mentor to hundreds of #STEMgirls and guys who gather around her like ducklings at York University in Toronto. In addition to being a full professor, she is the former Director of […]
House Portraits
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog, Toronto Illustrators
PROCESS PORN: I think the architecture of a house determines my drawing style. I suspect there are a few other mysterious factors that go into it. I haven’t settled on a cookie cutter style. When I do, I’ll stop and draw something else. My latest commission, an ivy-covered Georgian in Toronto, was a birthday present […]
Food trucks could help us in a pandemic
Originally published in July 2020 in Blog
And just like that restaurants evaporated. But the need to gather, gossip and drink never left us. We are water. Obstruct our flow and we’ll find other outlets. During Covid, the park next to my house has been relatively active during the day, but at night it comes alive: dozens upon dozens of quarantine pods […]
