Those Who Wander now available in audiobook

After more than a  year of effort by not only me, but my daughter, graphic artist Ellie Syracopoulos (who formatted and uploaded the files), and my sound engineer Todd Le Blanc, the audio version of my first book, Those Who Wander, is finally live on Audible and Amazon.ca. It came out at just over 13 hours of recording! Hard to believe. It was a lot of work by all of us, but I'm proud of the result and hope it will capture a different market than my print and digital books.

Here’s a link to hear a sample:

https://www.amazon.ca/arya/webplayer?asin=B0GWNQ5QR7&marketplaceId=A2EUQ1WTGCTBG2&amazonAsin=B0GWNGY135&useRelativeUrl=true&initialCPLaunch=true&isSample=true&isHomesteadCaller=true&isMobile=false&ref_=adbl_dp_dt_cloudplayer_login_preview

Thanks for a GREAT Art Crawl!

I am so appreciative of the many art lovers who came by this past weekend to take so many of my well-loved older works to new homes. I hope you’ll love them too! The sale continues on existing inventory until it’s all gone, including works displayed in various businesses in Sechelt. Contact me at rodgers.ruth@gmail.com to claim your 1/2 price treasure.

Witches Abode Private Collection

Thanks also to artist Serena Trinder who included the ‘spine’ of my book In Plain Sight on the new Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors book cart!

SALE at ART CRAWL this year!

Time to reduce some painting inventory to make space for new explorations…so on all three days of this year’s Art Crawl (Oct 17, 18, 19; 10-5 each day), ALL PAINTINGS IN MY STUDIO INVENTORY will be priced at 50% off. Come early for best selection!

And also come and see the framed results of my new oil/cold wax work with English artist Paula Dunn.

The first four quadriptychs framed—four more to come plus many smaller pieces—also sale priced (the quadtriptychs will be $275 per frame).

Oil and Cold Wax with Paula Dunn

I’ve just had the great pleasure of taking a 4-day f2f class with English artist Paula Dunn at the Gibsons School for the Arts. It was such fun: innovative, experimental, and productive. Paula taught the group a whole host of techniques, but let us determine how we wanted to apply these to our own work—the best of both worlds!

Here are a couple of my final products. These pieces are a combination of pigment sticks, oil and cold wax mixtures, mark-making with a bunch of tools, newsprint masking, plus a bit of collage and applied pigment powders on Arches huile paper. I’m sure I’ll be exploring these techniques more in the coming months!

A small practice piece.

A bigger piece (full sheet of paper) divided into sixteen and developed into four ‘quadriptychs’ (one image across four sections).

Present Tense show at GPAG

As a member of the Gibsons Public Art Gallery, I have submitted one work to be shown in the upcoming Present Tense exhibition (June 26-July 20, 2025) in Gibsons, BC. It’s Poppy Eve (acrylic, 18 x 18, $550), one of the ‘splash’ paintings I was experimenting with recently. It takes a LOT of spatters to fill a space, but I like the textured surface that results. This work is also unique because after I completed it (on a thin canvas) I decided I wanted it to have more ‘heft’ so I glued on an additional, thicker canvas and made it a deep painting you can hang on your wall without a frame—a more contemporary approach that suits the technique, I think. Of course, I also ‘splashed’ my way around the edges for a finished look!

Note that this show is also a fundraiser for this public art gallery, a fabulous resource for our small rural region—hope you’ll attend and buy local!