Pottery Dinner Plates Inspired by Mountains
My attempt at a second set of pottery dinner plates started with a hike in the Rocky Mountains - the famous Rockwall Hike! While Billy and I were exploring the backcountry, I would stop and take pictures of rock patterns and colours feeling that it would inspire some pottery work in the future. Fast forward 6 months and I ...
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Hiking the Rockwall in Kootenay National Park
A scan of my travel notebook, a Seaform green Leuchtturm1917 Hiking the Rockwall. 5 days. Not rushing, soaking it in. In late August, feeling the last weeks of summer sneaking up on us, we set out on a long-awaited hike - the Rockwall, a 55 kilometer journey over 5 days. We didn't know how it would work out - a fair ...
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Baker Lake in Banff National Park
This past summer, we went hiking up to Baker Lake. It's a hiking area near the infamous Skokie Lodge in Banff National Park. Our three day hiking trip started with a challenge - a huge rainfall after 3 weeks of wildfire smoke from B.C. We got 5mm of rain throughout the whole day and everything, clothes, backpacks, shoes, ...
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2019 Book Club in Linocuts
This is a set of linocut postcards I made for my book club throughout 2019. Each represents a book we read and I mailed the the good old fashioned ...
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Back Country Mountain Hike – Healy Pass Trail in Banff National Park
Summer 2019 - the year we made our foray into back-country hiking. Billy was enthusiastic and excited. I was ... pensive and a bit nervous. Thankfully, Billy's enthusiasm is fed by research and my nerves are soothed by preparedness. Research + preparedness = good times in nature. We started with a 'practice trip' of a ...
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Halfway Point 2018: Resolutions
Something new coming to the blog - my comics! A couple of years ago I started drawing and painting as part of my new years resolutions. One of my goals for the next three years is to write a graphic novel so it's about time to share some of my stuff if I plan to put it out into the world. Goals always move ahead in the ...
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Photo Essay from Amy Dillon
Today we're catching up with a former Migration Patterns interviewee, Amy Dillon. She mentioned in the podcast that she had recently taken up photography and I've enjoyed watching her talent progress over the past 8 months or so. I asked her to share some of her work on the blog and she agreed! Here's the podcast episode ...
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