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Coming up this Friday, Oct 23: Episode 3 of Landsc

Coming up this Friday, Oct 23: Episode 3 of Landscape Artist of the Year Canada on CBC and CBC Gem, 9PM.
 If you missed the original airing, now’s your chance to catch this sweet show featuring yours truly and 5 other wonderful artists, plus some amazing “wildcard” talent as we battle the elements and attempt to create a landscape masterpiece in just 4 hours. So grateful to @cbc, @cbcgem, @cbcarts, @marblemedia and @blueantmedia for this incredible opportunity. Painting alongside the fabulous @elzbieta.painting @jeffwilsonart @kyleeturunen @kamamak_art and Ron Kuwahara was the experience of a lifetime. (My favourite part of this whole thing was meeting the other artists. It was supposed to be a “competition”, but with art it’s really between you and yourself.)
Photography by the wonderful @davidleyes
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Happy Thanksgiving, friends. This weekend I’ve b

Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
This weekend I’ve been reflecting on how many blessings have become visible in my life, not despite, but because of, these times.

Without this situation that we’re all in, all over the planet at the same time, no matter who we are, I’m not sure they would have meant as much. I was lucky enough to have dinner with my 80something parents last night - itself a great blessing.

And tonight I’m eating these potatoes that I harvested from my rooftop garden a few hours ago. (That moment in itself felt like a precious miracle.) I’m sharing a meal with my beloved. Tonight I am grateful for every moment, every mouthful, every small, previously insignificant thing. I wish you all the same awareness of how many blessings there are in your life.

Time flies when you’re having fun! Today is the

Here comes a major life moment: Landscape Artist o

Here comes a major life moment: Landscape Artist of the Year Canada starts airing on our glorious CBC and CBC Gem Friday nights at 9PM!  If you missed the original airing, now’s your chance to catch this sweet show featuring yours truly and 18 other wonderful artists as we attempt to create a landscape masterpiece in just 4 hours. Episode One is this Friday, and yours truly will be in Episode 3 on Oct 23rd. More on that later! So grateful to @cbc @cbcarts @marblemedia and @blueantmedia for this incredible opportunity.
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Do you know what a “Certainty Anchor” is?* W

Do you know what a “Certainty Anchor” is?* With the world in such a state of uncertainty on so many levels, we need certainty anchors more than ever. Things that give us comfort and help to ground us, just by the very fact that they don’t change. It can be as simple as looking out the window at the sky. It’s there every day. It could be your daily meditation practice. Going for a walk at the same time each day.   A new piece of art can serve as a certainty anchor. Walking past it, contemplating it, letting it inspire you and give you some breathing room. It’s one of my favourite things about art. Always with us, ready to be a certainty anchor that gives us hope and reminds us of enduring beauty no matter what is happening in the world outside our doors.

Art Walk in the Square Online is still on for a few more days. Check the link in my bio to browse affordable art and add a beautiful certainty anchor to your day. @artwalksquare

*“A certainty anchor is a practice or process that adds something known and reliable to your life when you may otherwise feel you’re spinning off in a million different directions. Rituals and routines can function as certainty anchors; their power comes from the simple fact that they are always there. They are grounding experiences to which you can always return, no matter what’s going on. Their consistency makes them effective tools to counter the anxiety that comes not only from living in uncertain times, but from embracing endeavors that ramp uncertainty even higher.” - Jonathan Fields, from the book Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance.

#Gratitude So happy this little gem is on its way

So happy this piece has found its way to a wonderf

Dance break during #impactingmillionslive with @se

Dance break during #impactingmillionslive with @selena_soo This team sure knows how to keep the energy up. After a full day of incredible speakers I swear my brain has grown 3 sizes. Now to take a walk to let all the incredible breakthroughs I had process and percolate. Damn, I love learning! ✍️🧠💥⚡️🔥

Did you know that my family is from Trinidad? My d

Did you know that my family is from Trinidad? My dad’s great uncle, Dr. Enrique Prada, was the first mayor of Port of Spain and lived in this house known as Mille Fleurs, a.k.a. Prada House in the early 1900s. By 2016 it had fallen into a state of terrible disrepair and has since been restored and handed over to the National Trust as a museum. I so cannot wait to visit one day! (Swipe to see the “before” pic.)

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