Tree branches, blue sky reflected in melting ice — winter hieroglyphics. Fractal patterns, webs of connection, forest’s neurons awake. Branches stretching out over cold morning waves sunlight glints on stones. Bluebells in spring, spring into life, forest wakes in mute beauty. Reeds stand sentinel, green and straight against a wavy background — one moment […]
Category archives: General
The Saint of the Lake (2017) with Recording by Sean Mc Dermott
The saint of the lake sits high in a sequoia that grows from an ait kissed by mild waves. Alone yet expansive, the art of silence presses the holy woman’s heart between two ferns, releasing notes of dried clover, cornflower, and marigold. Rain begins and the saint stirs, prays and praises the blesséd cover of […]
A Morning Hike in Brookbanks Park
Highland Creek Park on a June Afternoon
Just behind Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, a steep switchback trail leads me to the west bank of Highland Creek, where tall grasses sway beside a sandy bank with cheerful stones below. As I continue along the narrow path beside the bank, I stop to photograph an elegant monarch butterfly before moving into deeper tree cover […]
Summer Afternoon Roses and Other Garden Visitors
Thank you, afternoon roses! When I was working in the front garden under gray skies, the roses only looked flat red, but when I took some photos after finishing the task, the sun revealed combinations of red, orange, and yellow.
Living June, Lord Roberts Woods
Healing with the Arts Journal
Early Saturday Morning in Thompson Park, Scarborough
Sample Chapter from Visualizations for Heartbreak: Words, Photographs, and Collages by Catherine Raine
Anguish Your anguish is a force, a separate soul that cries out for solace and remedy. Although I have some medicine for you, I cannot restore the beloved person who abandoned you without warning. Into this void, my voice may drop like a stone. It hurts to see you cry, face in your hands, unable […]
Dawn Pond and Creek
Early Morning Lake Cure for Lockdown Restlessness
Gratitude Portraits
Ontario Hawk and Missouri Cat
Winter Walks, Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre
Early 20th-Century Farm Equipment in the Forest, Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre
Winter Dawn at Eglinton Ravine
Missouri Visit
“Less Lecturing, More Collaging” Session at Teaching and Learning Symposium, Centennial College (February 25, 2020)
Facilitating this art session on the theme of “What is Education?” was a pleasure and a privilege. I loved seeing the resulting collages and hearing the participants’ insightful and inspiring comments about their work.