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Eastside Culture Crawl
Please join me for the Eastside Culture Crawl, Vancouver’s annual visual arts festival! I will have some new work and works in progress––drop by my studio at #322b-1000 Parker Street and say hello. There will be so much art and …
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Tagged art, Canadian painting, contemporary painting, creative process, Eastside Culture Crawl, interior, new paintings, studio, Val Nelson artist, Vancouver, work
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Itness
Now that the cooler weather of Fall is here, I’m so grateful to be able to get back into the studio and paint paint paint. A little study I made last winter of a scene on my breakfast table has …
Doing What You Love
Below is an excerpt posted from the delightful newsletter I receive each Sunday from Brainpickings Weekly: “There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1941. Indeed, finding a …
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Tagged creativity, do what you love, free will, joy, play, time, work
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Painting: Work or play?
Vancouver painter Chris Charlebois wrote in with a response to Optimistic Pursuits’ recently posted The Pleasures of Art by David Hockney. Below is his thoughtful reply: Right now I have on order Search for the Real by Hans Hofmann. Don …
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Tagged art, Chris Charlebois, Hans Hoffman, painting today, play, work
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