Author Archives: James
ART IN MEXICO (PART FOUR)
LIVING AND CREATING ART IN MEXICO. Actually moving in… Although I didn’t realize it at the time, La Paloma Art Center was a major stepping-stone in my journey into the real Mexico. In those early days (1998) I needed a bridge between my work and life in Canada, and the fantasy of living and [...]
September 11 2001
“NINE ELEVEN” Ten years ago today I watched the TV in horror as the “9/11” terror attack took place in America. I was living in Canada at that time, but had arrived back to the UK the previous week to celebrate my Mothers 70 birthday. I think I knew at that time that the world [...]
ART IN MEXICO (PART THREE)
LIVING AND CREATING ART IN MEXICO. Discovering La Paloma Art Center… I cant remember exactly when it was that I discovered The La Paloma Art Center in San Patricio, it would have been sometime around the year 2000, on one of my early trips to Barra de Navidad. Barra didn’t have a bank, [...]
ART IN MEXICO (PART TWO)
LIVING AND CREATING ART IN MEXICO. Tropical beaches anyone… Traveling down from Vancouver Canada to most places in Mexico is relatively easy, it’s a popular destination for a lot of Canadian and American holiday makers. Despite my original fascination with Mexico City, the small amount of time I spent on the Pacific West Coast [...]
ART IN MEXICO (PART ONE)
LIVING AND CREATING ART IN MEXICO. How it all started… Have you ever traveled to a place, either to live, or on a short holiday, where you felt a deep connection, a feeling like finally this where you really belong? For me this happened in 1983 in Mexico, I had moved from the [...]
BEYOND THE EASTER BUNNY
Have you noticed that Easter is getting more and more commercialized? In the places I have travelled around the world it seems to me that the Rabbit is taking over from the Rabbi! My intention with the painting below “I God” is to stimulate dialogue in our modern world about this ancient story, and [...]
TRAVELING, LIVING, & PAINTING IN MEXICO
It doesn’t take much to get me daydreaming about my time in Mexico. The scent of a fresh lime, the warmth of the sun, Latin style music, ahh, there I go again! Within every painting there is a story, and I will be writing a more detailed account of each picture in my upcoming [...]
Cafe L”art”e anyone?
On the lighter side, the endless creativity of us humans doesn’t stop. And if you don’t love the art, well you still have a delicious cup of coffee! Free print offer Along the coffee cafe theme, this month I am giving away 5 small (A4) size prints of my painting “Cafe Bosanova”. [...]
The eye of the beholder…
The novel “Molly Bawn”, 1878, by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s contains the famous line: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, I don’t know the book, but I do know the saying, I use it all too often when describing peoples reactions to my art! It is a great line, and at first glance it [...]
Global awareness good and bad
Is it me, or are we living in interesting times? This time its Egypt, well Cairo, descending into chaos as its young people start to confront the corrupt leadership. Driven by passion and frustration and information available on the internet, people are beginning to realizing that they can be the harbingers of change. World leaders [...]




