http://flyfishingart.ca Home is where the Art is Mon, 10 May 2010 19:37:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I have just hung up the phone after a lengthy discussion with a very dear friend that lives in Winnipeg. The focus of our discussion dealt in large part about the donation of art to fund raising events that are going on just about every week. I ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=396   Ladder Pool                                                  24" x 72"                                Acrylic on canvas      So I've got this painting that I have been wanting to share with everyone and have been sitting on it for a while. It all started when I was asked to come up with an image that would ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=381                      Tiger Woods  5 & 7 Well it's that time of year once again when the world's greatest golfers are about to meet at Augusta, Georgia for the much anticipated Masters Golf Tournament. Each year this tournament brings along with it the hopes of an early start ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=374   Recently I was commissioned to create four panels for The Johnson GEO Centre, an interpretive Centre in St. John's, NL.  http://www.geocentre.ca/ The panels are all 30" x 40" and approximately 2.5" in depth. Each one deals with a different angle of the formation of the features of the St. ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=368   Scuba Salmo Salar  2009 Now here was a project that caught my attention. An announcement was made earlier this year by Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, NB that a competition was being held for Fredericton and area artists to submit designs for Salmon Run. ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=352     Dreamcatcher                                                   2009 This sculpture was completed on June 28th 2009. It is in the new garden at Marymound School in Winnipeg at 422 Scotia St. east of Main St. This piece was commissioned by Marymound after an initial meeting in Sept. 2008. The original draft ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=345   We are excited about this year’s Studio Tour coming up June 13 & 14. Some interesting facts on your local artists that may surprise you!       •       One of the artists had a portrait he’d painted given to Barbra Streisand and James Brolin for their wedding.       •       ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=340   Late last autumn my father, Randy Giffin, suggested that he would like to commission me to do a painting that he, along with my mother, Thelma, would donate to the Hammond River Angling Association in Nauwigewauk, NB. Being one of the founding members of the HRAA back in the ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=339   We've all heard the story before. "Van Gogh cut off his ear!" Nothing much else is known about this great painter, who I might add, was about 100 years ahead of his time. Imagine how many people missed their chance way back then when they did not buy his ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=330   I have always been inspired by music.  It is the rare time that I do not have music playing while I am creating in my studio. Whether it is classical, classic rock, folk, jazz, rhythm & blues or progressive I find that it soothes the soul. When I ... http://flyfishingart.ca/?p=327