My Book is Out!!!

WEST ON ONE

(by me!)

is now available!!!

It can be ordered at www.pipestonepress.ca/westonone

or purchased at independent booksellers along the Bow Corridor

(list of merchants also on web site)

Please join us for the official BOOK LAUNCH

on Thursday, Sept 30, 7:30 pm

at Pages in Kensington

1135 Kensington Road

Calgary, AB

Hope you can make it - should be a fun party!

And yet more water...

Brittany Coast III - France

39 x 28 in.

oil on canvas
I seem to be revisiting old themes a lot - this is another from a series of photo references I took off the Point du Raz on the western tip of Brittany a number of years ago. I love the dual layers of the ocean bottom and the swirls of light reflected on the water surface - a challenging subject!!!

More Water...

Reflection: Burmis Lake, AB

Oil on canvas

36 x 36 in.

This painting came from the weekend I spent in the Crowsnest Pass area last spring, at a painting excursion organized by the Alberta Society of Artists. One day we visited this small lake, which had gorgeous shifting reflections in it. I took lots of reference photos and did a few quick colour sketches in paint. This is the first large painting to come out of the ideas I brought home with me.

Back to Painting Water!

Under Aero Pier

Oil on Canvas

32 x 38 in.

On a recent kayak trip to the Charlottes we stopped to explore an old logging site where they cut Sitka spruce to make aricraft during WW I. It was an interesting place, but what intrigued me most were the patterns and reflections I found as I paddled slowly under the pylons of the old ruined pier. This painting is an interpretation of that image - probably one of my most abstract so far in this series.

Forest Landscape

Regeneration

Acrylic on Wood Panel

23 x 33 in.

This is from a hike up to Stanley Glacier - an area that has been heavily fire affected... and is now showing signs of exhuberant new life!

Painting again.... at last!

After being totally distracted by working on my book for the last half of the year, I am back in the studio and doing some warm-up landscapes. I decided to have some fun with combining some fairly loose colour application in paint with some drawing work on the image. I quite enjoyed the process and rather like the outcome...

Last Summer Revisited

Kyoquot Entrance

28 in x 39 in

Oil on canvas

Yearning for summer and putting that paddle in the water again... I worked from a moody image from our September trip on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Paddling through the mist toward the entrance to the inlet, one always wonders what lies in wait out in the open water. Once past those islands will it be big and scary? or will this mellow mood carry on, and the wind stay low and kind to kayakers? I hope that some of those feelings come through in this painting.

Ravens - again!

The Alliance

Finally I have been able to get back into the studio and back to my favourite subject - ravens!! This pair seem to have all the attitude that these black birds typically display. Don't mess with them!