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SPRING NEWS UPDATE
2026 ART IN THE CITY
2026 NEWS UPDATE

MAY 18: SPRING NEWS UPDATE

The 2026 ART IN THE CITY event at the West End Community Centre went well from May 1 to May 3 inclusive. This was the twenty-first time the event has been held. I sold a number of small limited edition prints, a large print, an etching of Savary Island, and 90 of my growing collection of Sim artist cards.

The STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL returns to Barclay Heritage Park again on Saturday June 13 from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Sim Publishing will be exhibiting original artwork and artist cards for the second year in a row, and has donated a matted and framed limited edition print and 2 boxes of artist cards to the raffle prize draw!

In an ongoing donation program that started a couple of years ago, I have been making a lot of donations to the West End Seniors' Network CLOTHING & COLLECTABLES store at the Denman Mall. As of today I have donated almost 900 items to the store, with a total estimated sale price of over $3,600.00! Donations have included books, records, CDs, DVDs, clothing, dishes, kitchenware, cut crystal glasses, at least 50 artworks - many of them original - and a variety of assorted household items. It has been a rather extended spring cleaning, as it were, and apparently the donations will be noted in a feature article in an upcoming WESN newsletter.

I continued making artist cards this winter and spring, and going into the Art in the City event I had 750 cards ready to sell from 265 different cards! With that many cards to choose from it was hard for people not to find one or more that they liked. As well, I have maintained my price for a card with envelope in a clear bag at $5.00, the price has not gone up in over 20 years.

APRIL 9: 2026 ART IN THE CITY

I will be showing my work in the 2026 ART IN THE CITY event at the West End Community Centre, from May 1 to May 3 inclusive. This will be the twenty-first time the event has been held, and although I haven't been at every one of them this will be my seventh time including the very first one in 2006!

The opening night is called the "vernissage" and is accompanied by drinks and snacks, all for free including admission! I hope to see you there!

Sim flyer for the event

JANUARY 16: 2026 NEWS UPDATE

Hello and welcome! Best wishes to all for a happy, successful, and prosperous New Year.

Lat year was a very busy year for me. I showed my artwork at five different events, successfully selling quite a bit of art, and at least 300 artist cards. In fact, the artist cards were so popular that I have spent the last couple of months creating more than 40 new cards and printing them out, as well as re-printing cards that I'd sold out of. Some of the new card images are shown below, a selection of my photographs and artwork. So far I have 345 cards in stock!

Please note: I am happy to take orders for these cards!

I gave two lectures last year, two short talks at events, and had two articles published that I wrote. I donated 18 original artworks to the West End Seniors' Network and the Canadian Art Preservation Foundation. I also donated a lot of artwork, books, DVD's, CD's, dishes, glassware, and clothing to the Clothing & Collectables thrift store in the Denman Mall.

I did a lot of work on my BC Artists project, and was helped out significantly by friends and people who were interested in the artists that I have listed. I was intending to have a "33-1/3" party in September to celebrate living in this apartment for one third of a century, but came down with an infestation of Pharoah's ants and had to clean out my kitchen in preparation for the exterminators to come in.

I was pleased to be nominated in 2025 for the ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, but did not receive the honour. However, the nominator will be re-submitting the nomination in 2026, as allowed, so hopefully that will be successful this year!