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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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| Maple Bay Arbutus | Mill Bay Day | Song of Somenos | Love Like an Ocean |
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| Peace Like a River | Morning Light | Safe Landing | One Fine Day |
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| Clouds over Clayoquot | Another Path | Outward Bound | West Coast Totem |
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| Heavy Weather | Dreamland Cowichan | Rapt in the Light | Drawn to the Light |
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| Warmth in Winter | Still Sanctuary | Silent Passage | Renewal |
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| Sunset Sail | Sun Salutation | Longing | Silent Reflection |
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| Into the Sun | Pending Weather | Into the Mystic | Snow Day |
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| Winter Creek | Wonder | Come Autumn! | Somenos Lake |
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| Bird's Eye Cove | Somenos Garry Oak Reserve | Decompression | White-Barked Trees I |
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| White-Barked Trees II | Mount Tzouhalem Arbutus | Out of the Showers into the Sun | Colour Shift |
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| Falls | Lake Escape | Summer Showers | Pinnacle |
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| Townend Road | Meadow | Tonquin Beach Lookout | Riverside |
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| Cherry Point | Pick Up Sticks | Captured | Stranded |
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| South Wickaninnish Beach | Rock and Roil | Surge and Shatter | Low Tide |
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| Bridge at Esquimalt Lagoon | Shore Surge | Numinous | Cobble Shore |
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| Field Day | Beach Day | Falls on the Chemainus River | Stoney Hill Arbutus |
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| Lake View | Sun in Fog | Evening Sentinel | Tofino Surfers |
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| Somenos Marsh | Maple Bay | Reclamation | Sea View |
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| Stoney Hill Path | Coastal Forest | Bleeding Hearts | Breeze |
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| Get Ready! | Reminiscence | Under the Autumn Canopy | Red Zen |
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| East to Salt Spring | Spring Again | Spring Blush | Summer Shade |
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| Shift into Autumn | Winter Gray | Whiskey Point, Mill Bay | Cowichan Bay Farm |
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| Cherry Point Bridge | View from Mount Prevost | Lower Chemainus River | Hiking Above Cowichan Lake |
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| Goldstream Estuary | Cowichan Farmland | Richard's Trail | Chemainus Riverbank |
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| The Seventh Wave | Tofino Evening | Sundown Weather | Wave Study I |
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| Wave Study II | Boats at Comox | Comox Shoreline | Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway |
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| Stoney Hill Outlook | Trickster Moon | A Long Time Alone | High Summer, Quamichan Lake |
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| Chemainus River Bend | View from Newcastle Island | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace | 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 |