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I am most at home on the land, with my face to the ocean. Luckily for me, I have lived on Vancouver Island and by the ocean for most of my life. Yes, I did live in Calgary, Alberta, for about three years and, while I thought it was a great city with wonderful people and terrific recreation, I missed the British Columbia coastline, its weather and changing tides. I am also happy to be painting in the Cowichan Valley. And while my primary focus in on ocean and shoreline subjects, I will continue to add more paintings of the Valley and other Island locations to this portfolio.
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. —John Muir
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused." —Rainer Maria Rilke
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| Coastal Silhouette | Peace of Mind | November Wickaninnish | Outward Bound |
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| Sproat Lake View to Mount Kiltsa | Mill Bay Day | Night Watch | Heavy Weather |
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| West Coast Totem | Love Like an Ocean | Wet Weather Day | Heart of Oak |
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| Maple Bay Arbutus | Song of Somenos | Peace Like a River | Safe Landing |
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| One Fine Day | Another Path | Silent Passage | Pending Weather |
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| Clouds over Clayoquot | Morning Light | Rapt in the Light | Drawn to the Light |
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| Warmth in Winter | Still Sanctuary | Renewal | Sunset Sail |
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| Sun Salutation | Longing | Silent Reflection | Into the Sun |
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| Into the Mystic | Snow Day | Winter Creek | Wonder |
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| Come Autumn! | Somenos Lake | Bird's Eye Cove | Somenos Garry Oak Reserve |
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| Decompression | White-Barked Trees I | White-Barked Trees II | Mount Tzouhalem Arbutus |
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| Out of the Showers into the Sun | Colour Shift | Falls | Lake Escape |
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| Summer Showers | Pinnacle | Townend Road | Meadow |
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| Tonquin Beach Lookout | Riverside | Cherry Point | Pick Up Sticks |
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| Captured | Stranded | South Wickaninnish Beach | Rock and Roil |
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| Surge and Shatter | Low Tide | Bridge at Esquimalt Lagoon | Shore Surge |
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| Numinous | Cobble Shore | Field Day | Beach Day |
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| Falls on the Chemainus River | Stoney Hill Arbutus | Lake View | Sun in Fog |
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| Evening Sentinel | Tofino Surfers | Somenos Marsh | Maple Bay |
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| Reclamation | Sea View | Stoney Hill Path | Coastal Forest |
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| Bleeding Hearts | Breeze | Get Ready! | Reminiscence |
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| Under the Autumn Canopy | Red Zen | East to Salt Spring | Spring Again |
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| Spring Blush | Summer Shade | Shift into Autumn | Winter Gray |
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| Whiskey Point, Mill Bay | Cowichan Bay Farm | Cherry Point Bridge | View from Mount Prevost |
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| Lower Chemainus River | Hiking Above Cowichan Lake | Goldstream Estuary | Cowichan Farmland |
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| Richard's Trail | Chemainus Riverbank | The Seventh Wave | Tofino Evening |
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| Sundown Weather | Wave Study I | Wave Study II | Boats at Comox |
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| Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway | Stoney Hill Outlook | Trickster Moon | A Long Time Alone |
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| High Summer, Quamichan Lake | Chemainus River Bend | View from Newcastle Island | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace |
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| Beach Walk, Cherry Point | Wend and Wander | Island Low Tide | Tracings of Spring |
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| Longing for Florencia Bay | View from Stoney Hill Bluffs | Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet | Osborne Bay Too |
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| Viridity: A State of Greeness | Rinse Cycle | Ever a New Day | The Victoriana |
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| Rapacious Stillness, Great Blue Heron | Purple Martin Perch | Halcyon Kingfisher Day | Red-Tailed Hawk |
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| Caw-cophony | Steller's Jays at Cowichan Bay | The Old Wickaninnish Inn 1977 | Fog Wedge |
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| Mackenzie Beach Driftwood | Tide Pool | West Coast Calm | Coastal Glow |
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| Chesterman Beach Dog Walker | O Bluebirds, Welcome Back Again | Pollywogs | Black Rock Lupine I |
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| Black Rock Lupine II | Herd Road Flooded Fields | Chemainus River at Swallowfield Road | View to Stuart Channel |
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| Optical Delusion, the glass ball I wish I'd found! | Beach Dogs Walk | Long Beach April | Kwisitis Centre at Wickaninnish Beach |
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| Surf Hut Fence at Jordan River Beach | Frank Island Rocks | Lone Surfer | View to Lovekin Rock |
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| South Beach Driftwood | South Wickaninnish Bay | Waiting | View to Lennard Light |
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| Sandhill Creek | West Coast Shoreline I | West Coast Shoreline II | Tofino Sunset |
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| Quamichan Lake Blackbirds | Little Beach, Ucluelet | Fletcher's Beach | Ucluelet Driftwood |