Donnybrook Island

 

Donnybrook Island, 6x6, glazed acrylic, $95.00

available at Art Emporium Port Stanley:  contact

Pockets of life, islands of diversity, home to many, safe haven.

Juction

 

Junction, 6x6, glazed acrylic, $95.00

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Junction: A place of meeting or joining. Once, all was forest, then came the colonizers, who took down much of the forest. Pockets remain, and as it is the will of nature to grow and also to colonize, the junctions where field and forest meet are the site of a subtle battle.

Stalking the Marsh

 

Stalking the Marsh, 4x4, glazed acrylic, $60.00

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The  coastal salt marsh of the South Carolina Low Country, is the birth place of much of the ocean's life. It's also home to many who feed on the creatures that are born, and live there. The magnificent herons, and their kin, are a constant presence-stalking the marsh.

Kettle Valley

 

Kettle Valley 12x16, glazed acrylic, $240.00

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We walk with our extra large pup, along the Kettle Creek almost daily, unless there's a monsoon and the valley becomes a lake. This is the view from the crest of the hill, just before the trail head. It's our happy place.

Drumlin

 Down the side road, by the corn maze, there is an odd little hill, glacial remnant, Drumlin.

glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang

16x20, CDN $360.00  available at STEP Art Centre: contact

 

Hamilton Rd Undulations

Hamilton Rd Undulations,  Glazed Acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,  

                                                       24x30.CDN  $600.00 Available at STEP Art Centre: contact

I drive past this vista regularly, there’s a rutted farm track that goes through the fields and the land tells tales of retreating glacial flood waters, followed by forests then farms. These fields are zoned industrial use, one by one they’re disappearing under concrete and asphalt. 

 

Into The Distance

Into The Distance

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

 12x16, $255.00 CDN Available at STEP Art Centre: contact

Some times the fields seem to go on as far as the eye can see, an illusion of straight fence lines, and undulating land.

Through The Dunes

Where we go for our annual 'snowbird' the dunes are shaped by wind and water, every year they're different, and in hurricane years...much is lost to the angry sea. 

Through The Dunes

 Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang 

 18x24,CDN $415.00

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Transitions

Transitions, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 

  8x10 CDN $165.00

Available at Art Emporium Port Stanley: contact

I'm fascinated by the spaces between. Little bits of wild, left behind by the plough, too rough or inconvenient for the ploughman, but loved by the wildlings.

Centre Line

Centre Line, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang, 

8x10,  CDN $165.00

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Early in the year, the cover crop is ploughed under, the fertile land is ready for seed.

Donnybrook Green and Gold

Donnybrook Green and Gold, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden board, ready to hang,

24x30, CDN $600.00

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Washed Up

Washed Up, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang

  8x10, CDN$165.00

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This driftwood, greeted us each year on Hunting Island beach, until Hurricanes Mathew, and  Rita devastated the island, washing away much of the beach and most of the 'boneyard' trees. 

I'm very glad that I sketched and subsequently painted it, before it disappeared.   

On The Fence

On The Fence

4x4, glazed acrylic

$70.00

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Take The Long View

Take The Long View

4x4, glazed acrylic

$70.00

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Corn As High As An Elephants Eye

Corn As High As An Elephants Eye, Glazed Acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,

12x16,

 CDN $255.00, Available at STEP Art Centre: contact 

Hamilton Rd Pump House

Hamilton Rd Pump House, glazed acrylic, on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang,

 12x16, CDN $255.00

Available at STEP Art Centre: contact 

A remnant of rural life, surrounded by developing subdivisions, safe only until it becomes worth the work of flattening the rolling landscape.  I record it while I can.

Corn and Beans

Corn and Beans, glazed acrylic on cradled wooden panel, ready to hang

 12x16, $255 

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Don's Dang Hill

Don's Dang Hill, Glazed Acrylic on cradled wooden panel ready to hang

12x12, CDN $215.00

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Recorded on a hot summer day, Don's hill, was an anomaly, a steep drop into what may have once been the bed of a rushing glacial river, long gone, and now permanently erased to make way for a "better" road.