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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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| Above Lismer Bay | Quamichan Lake Reprise | The Talking Circle | Ode to an Island Forest |
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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 | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace |
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| Heavy Weather | West Coast Totem | Love Like an Ocean | Wet Weather Day |
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| Heart of Oak | Maple Bay Arbutus | Song of Somenos | Peace Like a River |
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| Safe Landing | One Fine Day | Another Path | Silent Passage |
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| Pending Weather | Clouds over Clayoquot | Morning Light | Rapt in the Light |
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| Drawn to the Light | Warmth in Winter | Still Sanctuary | Renewal |
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| Sunset Sail | Sun Salutation | Longing | Silent Reflection |
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| Into the Sun | Into the Mystic | Snow Day | Winter Creek |
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| Wonder | Come Autumn! | Somenos Lake | Bird's Eye Cove |
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| Somenos Garry Oak Reserve | Decompression | White-Barked Trees I | White-Barked Trees II |
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| Mount Tzouhalem Arbutus | Out of the Showers into the Sun | Colour Shift | Falls |
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| Lake Escape | Summer Showers | Pinnacle | Townend Road |
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| Meadow | Tonquin Beach Lookout | Riverside | Cherry Point |
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| Pick Up Sticks | Captured | Stranded | South Wickaninnish Beach |
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| Rock and Roil | Surge and Shatter | Low Tide | Bridge at Esquimalt Lagoon |
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| Shore Surge | Numinous | Cobble Shore | Field Day |
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| Beach Day | Falls on the Chemainus River | Stoney Hill Arbutus | Lake View |
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| Sun in Fog | Evening Sentinel | Tofino Surfers | Somenos Marsh |
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| Maple Bay | Reclamation | Sea View | Stoney Hill Path |
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| Coastal Forest | Bleeding Hearts | Breeze | Get Ready! |
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| Reminiscence | Under the Autumn Canopy | Red Zen | East to Salt Spring |
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| Spring Again | Spring Blush | Summer Shade | Shift into Autumn |
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| Winter Gray | Whiskey Point, Mill Bay | Cowichan Bay Farm | Cherry Point Bridge |
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| View from Mount Prevost | Lower Chemainus River | Hiking Above Cowichan Lake | Goldstream Estuary |
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| Cowichan Farmland | Richard's Trail | Chemainus Riverbank | The Seventh Wave |
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| Tofino Evening | Sundown Weather | Wave Study I | Wave Study II |
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| Boats at Comox | Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway | Stoney Hill Outlook | Trickster Moon |
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| A Long Time Alone | Chemainus River Bend | View from Newcastle Island | Beach Walk, Cherry Point |
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| Wend and Wander | Island Low Tide | Tracings of Spring | Longing for Florencia Bay |
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| View from Stoney Hill Bluffs | Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet | Osborne Bay Too | Viridity: A State of Greeness |
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| Rinse Cycle | Ever a New Day | The Victoriana | Rapacious Stillness, Great Blue Heron |
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| Purple Martin Perch | Halcyon Kingfisher Day | Red-Tailed Hawk | Caw-cophony |
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| Steller's Jays at Cowichan Bay | The Old Wickaninnish Inn 1977 | Fog Wedge | Mackenzie Beach Driftwood |
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| Tide Pool | West Coast Calm | Coastal Glow | Chesterman Beach Dog Walker |
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| O Bluebirds, Welcome Back Again | Pollywogs | Black Rock Lupine I | Black Rock Lupine II |
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| Herd Road Flooded Fields | Chemainus River at Swallowfield Road | View to Stuart Channel | Optical Delusion, the glass ball I wish I'd found! |
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| Beach Dogs Walk | Long Beach April | Kwisitis Centre at Wickaninnish Beach | Surf Hut Fence at Jordan River Beach |
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| Frank Island Rocks | Lone Surfer | View to Lovekin Rock | South Beach Driftwood |
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| South Wickaninnish Bay | Waiting | View to Lennard Light | Sandhill Creek |
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| West Coast Shoreline I | West Coast Shoreline II | Tofino Sunset | Quamichan Lake Blackbirds |
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| Little Beach, Ucluelet | Fletcher's Beach | Ucluelet Driftwood |