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VOX Electronica
This is the poster for Vancouver Pro Musica’s blowout weekend of new music. While the main event is the Sonic Boom Festival there was this adjacent concert featuring specially commissioned works for electronics and voice. It is such a rich … Continue reading
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Friends of Chamber Music’s 77th Season Posters
I’m very happy with this year’s poster series for Friends of Chamber Music’s 77th Season. But I’m sad that long time board president and beating heart of the organization for decades, Eric Wilson, took his final bow earlier in the … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Photography, Posters, Still life
Tagged Chamber Music, Friends of Chamber Music
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The Return of Saxophilia
I’ve just designed a new CD package for Colin MacDonald’s superb new music sax quartet, Saxophilia. The group is performing new work in concert again so I also designed two posters for performances over the summer of 2023. The font … Continue reading
Friends of Chamber Music’s 75th Season Posters
For this season’s look I decided to riff on the cyanotype and the x-ray or “Ray-o-gram” process from photography’s experimental days of olde! This was inspired by an exhibit by Jonah Samson that I reviewed early in 2022 for Galleries … Continue reading
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Tagged Casals Quartet, Chamber Music, cyanotype, Emerson Quartet, experimtal process, Han Finkel Setzer Trio, Takacs Quartet, x-ray
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Veda Hille – Time
This is a still from a new video I did for Veda Hille’s dreamy setting of a WH Auden poem which appears on her excellent 2022 release Beach Practice You can see the video here:
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Tagged Music Video, Vancouver Songwriter, Veda Hille
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Jay Cabalu’s Extra!
This portrait accompanied my Galleries West review of Jay Cabalu’s wonderful show Extra! at On Main Gallery, curated by Paul Wong. We met up at The Crescent in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood of Vancouver and did a walkabout in the arboretum, … Continue reading
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Tagged Extra!, Jay Cabalu, On Main
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New Faces at Early Music Vancouver
These are the new official portraits of Early Music Vancouver’s concert master Chloe Meyers. She’s appeared with EMV many times over the years but these are the official portraits in advance of the 2022 Bach Festival. If you’ve not attended … Continue reading
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Tagged Chloe Meyers, Early Music Vancouver
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Upstaged!
I’ve done many portraits of BC author/legend George Bowering over the years but this one was a little different. Asked by the publisher to think “So you want it darker?” (in reference to Leonard Cohen’s final album) I had George … Continue reading
Posted in Book Covers, Photography, Portraiture
Tagged BC poets, book covers, George Bowering, New Star Books
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Friends of Chamber Music: Season 72!
I really enjoy working for Friends of Chamber Music and designing each season’s posters and digital advertising content. This year has been no exception! I pulled back a little bit from last season’s more abstract approach to include hints of … Continue reading
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Tagged Friends of Chamber Music
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The Passage of Time
Sometimes I like to share travel photos. This one is a recent favourite taken on a trip to Alert Bay. If you know anything about the history of the Kwakwaka’wakw people you know of their incredible artistry. This magnificent memorial … Continue reading
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