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!