Monday, 8 August 2016

CHILDhood Memories

Dreaming of when I was younger. I spent my childhood here. Four Seasons Hotel, Inn on the Park. Miss you Papa.

  • The first Four Seasons hotel opened on the first day of spring in 1961 on an unlikely downtown site in Toronto, Canada.  “We opened our first hotel with a simple principle: treating every customer as a special guest.” Issy Sharp was both the developer and the builder of the hotel, with his original partners, Murray Koffler, Max Sharp, Eddie Creed and Fred Eisen.

Sunday, 7 August 2016

Perfect Timing :)

I received a mystery "package" in the mail this week. A burt image on a piece of wood. Every time I look at it I smile. Benjamin Buckland is this from you?

Thursday, 4 August 2016

Sunday, 24 July 2016

Monday, 18 July 2016

Friday, 3 June 2016

Lastest Acquisition

Bust, Kathryn MacNaughton, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40". 2016. Thanks mama xxx.

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Three Hours Later...

Gryffindor VS Ravenclaw, acrylic on paper, George Hampson and Ashley Lil (new years nerds). 2015.

Monday, 2 May 2016

Sunday, 24 April 2016

Office Love, Paris, 1977. Helmut Newton. Sold for $30,000 at Phillips NYC 2010.

Monday, 18 April 2016

Thank you for the book Abby. Wreck This Journal.

Ash(es) At Lords

The Pavilion, England vs Australia, 5:38pm, 333 for 5. ink on paper. 2013.

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Peter, The Bee's & Me

My fellow members at the R.H.S. would be proud. 
Spring cleaning at Lower Lodge. New gravel coming soon.
Sunflower Mobile Installation. Last Years Crop. 
The photos don't do the heads justice.

Wednesday, 2 March 2016


i found this drawing on my computer. 2o12.

Temple of Virtue

Portrait of a Young Women (La Fornarina), Raphael, oil on wood. 1518 - 1519.
Temple of Virtue, Ashley lil, ink on paper. 2012.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Friday, 19 February 2016

Denderah, interieur du temple, Egypt

i finally framed my gift from Lloyd. Denderah, interieur du temple, Egypt, J.P. Sebah, Turkish, Albumen print. 1980.

The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

In All Her Glory

Lower Lodge in all her glory. 10 Page Spread. Homes and Garden. February 2016.
page 1 - my favourite spot to needlepoint.

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Monday, 1 February 2016

Well Hello February...

finally received my new calendar. right on time.

Look what i found...

look what i found hiding under my bed...part of my print collection. antique prints from 1800's - 1970's.
my two favourites. hand water coloured etching. circa 1840.
The intrepid behaviour of Captain Napier, etching. 1815

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Cupid & Psyche

This is my all time love. sculpture by Antonio Canova. I've tried drawing this image for years with no luck. Its perfect the way it is.

To my one and only BFF

Flashback: 12 years ago. Yikes! What a wild ride. Happy 30th Chant! xx #rudegirls
 i love you to bits and pieces and miss you loads and loads and loads. love you, love you, love you.