Blind Eye Works

Something positive and colourful for these strange times. This is a short promo video CNIB Marketplace created for my art Blind Eye Works

Today on International Day of Persons with Disabilities I was interviewed by CBC Radio Early Edition's Cathy Browne. You can listen how these 3 people work to redefine disability.

So, if you are up at 7:50 am, I'll be featuring three badass individuals on CBC Radio's The Early Edition - Eileen Davidson Richard Harlow and Glenda Watson Hya...tt. And for those of you in Victoria, the Okanagan, Prince George and Kamloops, I did the same show for those morning shows as well A great way to observe the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

For international Persons with Disabilities Day tomorrow I am speaking on this 3 person student-led panel, all are welcome to attend.

This article features my accessible artwork and goes over interesting methods that are being used in modern, inclusive, immersive, and interactive curation of "visual art" and how artists are pushing the boundaries of accommodation to make galleries and museums universally accessible to all people with disabilities.

These are a collection of my artowrk I have done pre blindness and post blindness. You can buy yourself a print for only $10 CAD plus shipping. I am thankful for any requests as it supports me for making more accessible paintings that are tactile and allows me to continue to educate people on vision loss. Please message the page Blind Eye Works for more information, questions or requests. Each print is signed and dated on the back and printed on high quality photo paper at a professional print shop. If you would like to buy the origional with your wish I can stop making prints and it can be made yours for some paintings. Please inquire which are available to buy.

So proud of all my fellow artists who are exhibiting at the Picture 'Perfect'- Blind Ambitions Art Exhibit at UBC's Hatch Art Gallery now through June 6. If you...'re in the vicinity please drop by and check out a variety of media produced by blind and partially sighted artists including my friends Richard Harlow and Bruce Horak. I'm very proud to be the only photographer in the group. Congratulations to Wingspan Dis/arts, Culture and Public Pedagogy and Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture for making this ground-breaking show happen. CBC Vancouver CBC - North by Northwest CTV Vancouver Global BC The Province The Georgia Straight Vancouver Courier News Vancouver Is Awesome News Talk 980 CKNW NEWS 1130

come to my show this week!

Please come to my art show with my friend & photographer Cathy Browne entitled Picture Perfect: Blind Beginnings... All the artists are vision impaired and the show is designed to be inclusive and accessible to all! Location: The HAtch Gallery located inside UBC's Student union building called the Nest. Date: June 1-6 I will be doing an artist talk welcome to the public on June 3 at 11am.

COME TO MY SHOW! Its sad that Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture choose to be disrespectful and not spell check my name correctly and others in their advertising.

This is my grade 3 class of students I’ve been teaching in my artist in residency program. In this lesson we were creating accessible art and using empathy to think about how to make a painting tactile so that it would be accessible for someone who is blind. Each painting has sculptural elements that each student worked on. I'm very impressed with their creativity and the amount of thought that was put into each project. They have had a lot of growth since I’ve taught them basic painting skills; stay tuned for more amazing paintings from the students that have become very disability aware. Afterwards all the students shared what they painted, why they painted it and something we learned from this project.

After my presentation that I made to a school assembly here in Vancouver a student who is a fan of my work gave me this

I am so proud of my students! Each student created a tactile painting that was designed to be accessible for people with vision loss. Today they learned how to discuss art and critique, we had a sensory exercise where everyone got to touch and feel the sculpture that they created with the texture on their painting, they learned the anatomy of the human eye and how vision works and this photo is of one of the classes that I’m teaching.they learned how to photograph and draw their own eye. So impressed by my pupils hard work. Wingspan Dis/arts, Culture and Public Pedagogy

Last weekend I had the honor of speaking at this conference about my optic nerve disease. Its felt awesome having others affected by my disease viewing and touching my tactile accessible art. Those people truely see what I see so we had a great connection. I will be excited to speak at the next LHON confer3ence in Montreal next year! LHON Canada is doing amazing things to help foster a true community for people affected by lebers and vision loss and I am proud to be apart of it. https://www.facebook.com/events/1135772609919548/

Please consider donating to my fundraiser, I want to help other blind and low vision people out there CNIB CNIB British Columbia & Yukon I want to hit $300 for my 30th! https://www.facebook.com/donate/301248460766705/10161597735985632/

My passion is to help other blind or low vision people out there. Eye Appeal is an amazing fundraiser which all donated paintings go to auction and the funds are kept to help blind people on Vancouver Island. I donated this painting called "The Watcher of the Woods."I used greens and reds to open the conversation about how 1 in 12 men have some form of colour blindness. I also obscured the eyes because I cannot see the eyes of anybody when I am looking at them, its where my blind spot is. I cannot see my own eyes in the mirror. I am happy to help other blind and low vision people through my art. If you would like to support the CNIB and support the work I do, please consider donating to my CNIB birthday fundraiser, I want to raise $300 for my 30th. https://www.facebook.com/donate/301248460766705/10161597735985632/

Best part of today at my teaching job... 1 student brought in a painting for me, another brought a graffiti drawing, and too many to count have been working on ...their drawing skills that I have been teaching them. Today we were making accessible art and thinking outside of the box on how to make inclusive artwork that would allow the blind to experience their art through touch, a great empathy exercise. See more

5 hour commute to work is totally worth it when I am able to educate grade 3-7 kids about hard topics like privilege, prejudice, discrimination (in all forms), ableism, accessibility and accomidation. On top of this I got the students learning about how to draw with charcoal, highlight, low lights and shadow and how to use shading to make 2D forms become 3D. Oh and I even got to teach a secret code and language to the kids, braille and why its important. It felt amazing heari...ng their excitement about learning all of this! We are changing lives through Wingspan Dis/arts, Culture and Public Pedagogy! Next week: How to Paint Colour theory Colour mixing Braille calligraphy See more

If you would like to see what my current amazing job, watch this interview with my artist peers. This is a big deal for inclusion and disability awareness while nourishing creativity in the arts and so much more. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1656122

Tomorrow I start my first day with my artist in residency at Ladner Elementary schoolTomorrow I start my first day with my artist in residency at Ladner Elementary school