City Limits

 

On the edge of the City woods and fields still grow, don't look over your shoulder though, the 'dozers are coming. We can save this view, this habitat, these fertile grounds...but we must act now!

City Limits

16x20

glazed acrylic 

on cradled wood panel

$480. CDN$

available at Gathered Gallery Sparta Ontario

Summers End

 As summer winds down, some crops are done and plowed under, others are still to be harvested. The countryside is a rich tapestry of greens turning to gold changing to rich brown soil once again. 

The trees, just starting to don their fall coats, punctuate the tapestry with flashes of brilliant reds and oranges.

Many Canadians will tell you that this is our favorite time of year, as we gather together to give thanks joining with our friends and family around a harvest laden table.

Winter comes quickly here and often lingers far too long but we know summer is coming again, bringing with it, the bounty of our land and the beauty of our country.

Summer’s End, 18x36, glazed acrylic, $765.CND

Available at Gathered, A Gallery in Sparta Ont

To The Beach

                                                                             To the beach

The path to the beach, well traveled by the local's and a few in the know out of towners.... this particular path is to one of the few places where our furry companions can swim and cavort on a hot summers day, chasing sticks and balls and sometimes a friend. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but for those who love a dog, it's heaven on a summers day.  

To The Beach

8x10, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden board

ready to hang

$200. CND$

Distant Glimmer

 

Distant Glimmer

Water and the land go hand in hand. Water is sculptor, over time creating the rolling hills, stream beds and  hidden hollows. This land was shaped by melting glaciers and holds may treasured spaces, 'pot hole' lakes, 'misfit' streams and flat water washed flood plains. The richness of those glacial flood plains is a treasure beyond compare, one we should not be careless with.

Distant Glimmer 

6x6, glazed acrylic on cradled wooden board

ready to hang

$135.00 free shipping in Canada

Barn Bridge

 Once upon a time, barns were wood, and red, barn red that is. The livestock was below and the hay above. Nothing smelled as good as the hay loft, there was a somewhat scary ladder and often a rope to swing from.  The tractor pulling the hay wagons (or horses if your old enough to remember them) climbed the Barn Bridge, bales were pitched into the loft if you were strong enough or there might be a platform that was loaded and lifted. 

Wooden barns are an endangered species now. Too many have burned or fallen down, and modern farmers look to more durable materials.  Understandable, but they lack the character and romance of the old wooden barn.  

Barn Bridge

14x18, on cradled wooden board, ready to hang

$365. CDN

The Vine

 The Vine, has been growing on this fence rail for generations, so long that most of the fence has succumbed to the combined forces of time and nature. With a sinewy base and 'branches' as big around as a  mans wrist it is a testament to tenacity.  

With a little luck and good management hopefully it will continue to amaze generations to come.  

The Vine

6x6 glazed acrylic on cradled wooden board, ready to hang

$135.00 free shipping in Canada

transitions

 

Taking the backroads in mid spring, it's delightful to watch the transition from spring's promise to summers fullness, the brown fields are turning green the trees are filling out, and the world comes to life once more...

Transitions

8x10, glazed acrylic on cradled wooden board.

200.00 cdn free shipping in Canada 

               Consigned to: New Sarum Collective contact@thecollective-newsarum.ca                                  

www.thecollective-newsarum.ca

                                                        

Relic

 

Relic

8x10, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden board, ready to hang. 

$205. CDN Free shipping in Canada

Hanging onto life in the dunes, a relic of the ocean side forest, this battered ancient tree has survived hurricanes creeping sea levels and humans...  I'm told that this tree was probably a seedling when Columbus sailed these shores long may it live! 

Every year when we go south I'm delighted and a bit surprised that she's still there, I say she because I'm sure she's the mother of many of the other smaller live oaks on this stretch of coast.

 I'm drawn to old tree's, perhaps my druidic ancestors have left an imprint on my DNA. Like so many ancient peoples they believed that all living things had spirits. The more we learn about the interconnectedness of life the more it seems they may have been right! 

Dance Like No One's Looking

 

Dance Like No One's Looking

8x10, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden board $200. CDN,

On this coast too often be set with hurricanes, only the supple survive.

These survivors clustered on the lee side of a row of ancient dunes, show scars and missing limbs. 

 Near a huddle of older trees a lithe young tree dances in the wind. The survivors seem to watch and I wonder what they may be thinking.  

Marsh Mystery

Marsh Mystery 12x12 Glazed Acrylic, 

$285.00 CND 

In these mysterious places where boundaries blur anything seems possible. 

Trees high step in water and muck with roots exposed and twisted into arabesques, 

creating hiding spots for creatures great and small.  

 Being less accessible to humans they are one of the last safe places for many creatures. The marsh is brimming with life. Unfortunately  those bent on "development" only see a place to drain, soil to harvest, and potential for new malls, highways and urban sprawl.

 

St Andrews Hollow

 

St Andrews Hollow

A tiny yellow brick country church, one of the last of it's kind, overlooks a shallow winding valley where a glacial river once flowed. Both unfortunately are one land that is zoned for development.

What a lose if they should fall to the developers 'dozers. Our insatiable appetite for  what those in power call development comes at great cost. 

These are some of the most fertile lands in North America, and the world. The question needs to be asked... what legacy are we leaving future generations?  

18x36 inches, glazed acrylic, cradled wooden board, ready to hang, $899.

Available at Gathered Gallery in Sparta Ont.

Silent Witness

 The ancient live oaks of the hurricane battered south eastern U.S. bear silent witness to the changes 

wrought by humans through the passing centuries. We can only imagine the  changes they

have seen... if only they could talk, what would they say, and would we change our ways?

16x20, glazed acrylic painting on cradled wooden board, ready for hanging, $340.CND free shipping in Canada

Prevailing Wind

Prevailing Wind

A steady wind acts as a sculptor, directing branches and canopy into elegant shapes.

These creations though can be fragile in the face of the hurricanes that lash this coast more frequently and stronger as the oceans warm. Each year we wonder what changes the winds will bring.

 original painting, glazed acrylic, 12x16, on cradled wooden panel, ready for hanging

$340.00

Dancing On The Edge

$340.

Dancing On The Edge

 Trees and under story growth dance on the edge of the marsh, toes dipped into the rich moist silt. The supple reeds bow and rustle their approval. Wildlings watch the show from their homes hidden from prying predatory eyes. The marsh is a nourishing safe haven.

Salt marshes on the oceans edge, are called the cradle of the sea. A huge percentage of ocean based life is born or hatched in the marsh. Inland marshes share a similar role of incubator and safe haven.

The worlds marshes, fens and swamps are some of the most misunderstood and therefore endangered habitats in the world.

Drained to farm - they provide rich soil, drained for mosquito control, drained to build on, filled in for all of the above... once gone they are not replaceable. Wetlands the world over teeter on the edge of destruction.

12x16, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden board, ready to hang 

Saw Palmetto and Old Oak

 

Spread your arms and dance with the wind. Sometimes swaying gently, other times appearing ready to leap from the ground.  Elegant partners dancing through the decades, creating their own music. 

Live Oaks are a icon for durability, centuries old they have endured much change and  hopefully will continue the dance into the future with their lithe companions the Saw Palmetto.

8x8, glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, $190.

March Scarcely Here

 

March Scarcely Here

After a winter that hung around far too long, the first faint colours of spring are a very welcome sight. The gold of the willows and the faint blush of the maple blossoms promise warmer days and gentler weather to come. This shoreline though is coveted by developers, and is one of many who's protections are in danger of being removed, we need to stop and think before there lands are deregulated, once they're gone...they're gone.

glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 

12x24, $460.00 free shipping in Canada

Marsh Highway

Marsh Highway

''For centuries, the marsh has served as a natural passageway for both humans and animals, offering a route that has been utilized since ancient times.'''

                      The world over marshes are disappearing, not just 'highways' they are also the cradle of                            the sea. From fish to birds to mammals, to reptiles, life starts here is nurtured then                                    ventures   into  the world.  The fragility of these precious environments 

 glazed acrylic, 12x12, ready to hang on cradled wooden panel

 $285.00

 

 

Rising Ground

 Rising Ground

Sinuous curves, followed the contours of the landscape and created patterns of colour and texture, agricultural art, seen but now gone. In it's place a factory stands....

Glazed Acrylic, 12x24, ready to hang on cradled wooden board, 

available at Gathered Gallery Sparta Ontario

Treasured Memories

Treasured Memories,

For many Ontarians the near north is the place to spend lazy summer days.

A place of lakes, forest, and peace, beloved by Canadian artists, in our hearts and memories there is no more treasured place to spend a holiday.

However, these places are under pressure from 'developers' and the politicians who want to

curry favour with them, we have so much to lose, if the deals go through.

 8x10 on cradled board ready to hang,  

glazed acrylic, $215. available

Elegant Oak

 

Live Oaks, survivors of century's of human occupation.

From the first peoples, to successive waves of European settlers, the oaks have endured , watching no doubt bemused with arboreal wisdom at the short range lives we live.

Like the SW Ontario rural landscapes I paint, these low country (at sea level) survivors are at risk from both human activities and from more frequent and stronger hurricanes.

This piece is part of my hurricane coast series, in which I'm recording the what is, before it becomes the what was.

8x8, glazed acrylic, on cradled wood panel

ready to hang, $190.

free shipping in Canada

                                                                                       

Treeline

 

Treeline

At a gentle separation, of field and field, or crop and crop,  a treeline waves. Far friendlier than a fence, and a place for the wildlings to travel to, from and along, these poplars, maple, and sometimes evergreens are green punctuation marks upon the landscape.  

6x6, glazed acrylic, cradled wooden board, ready to hang $145.00

                    Consigned to: New Sarum Collective contact@thecollective-newsarum.ca                                  

www.thecollective-newsarum.ca

                                                        

              

Swirls

Swirls

Across undulating hills the tractors dance, in their wake the soil swirls with lines and rhythms that catch the artists eye.  Patterns in the earth like visual music accentuate the landscape 

6x6, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, $145.00

              Consigned to: The Collective Mercantile 

Tor

 

                                                                           Tor

 Tor, Celtic hill fort, an ancient place of safety, now a place of peace and dreams, surrounded by fields of wild daffodils, and grazing sheep.  If only all battle grounds could be this way. 

16x12, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 

available at Gathered Gallery Sparta Ontario

Thank you to my amazing cousin Deb Tilley for the reference photo see more of her photography here

Across the Field

 

Across The Field

Distant silos beckon the weary farmer home, not just  storage, but a beacon too, standing tall amongst the trees and crops, a guide at the end on a long hard day. 

12x6 Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang.

$215.00 plus shipping, calculated at checkout

                   Consigned to: New Sarum Collective contact@thecollective-newsarum.ca                                  

www.thecollective-newsarum.ca

Road To The Lake

 

                                                                     

Road To The Lake

Taking the back roads to Tobermory to catch the Chi-cheemaun is for many Ontarians a summer tradition. All roads lead to the lake, and good memories.  

12x36, Glazed Acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang

$630.00 available at Gathered Gallery Sparta Ontario