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. 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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Amaryllis | Special Delivery | Bright Angel Park | Shore Watch |
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A Good Morning | West Coast Cove, A Long Time Alone | Laughing Brook | Long Beach Luminescence |
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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 | Numinous |
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Red Zen | Outward Bound | Snow Day | Sproat Lake View to Mount Kiltsa |
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Whiskey Point, Mill Bay | View from Mount Prevost | Mill Bay Day | Night Watch |
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End of the Boardwalk, Osborne Bay | Heavy Weather | West Coast Totem | Love Like an Ocean |
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Wet Weather Day | Heart of Oak | Maple Bay Arbutus | Song of Somenos |
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Peace Like a River | Safe Landing | One Fine Day | Another Path |
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Silent Passage | Pending Weather | Clouds over Clayoquot | Morning Light |
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Rapt in the Light | Drawn to the Light | Warmth in Winter | Still Sanctuary |
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Renewal | Sunset Sail | Sun Salutation | Longing |
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Silent Reflection | Into the Sun | Into the Mystic | 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 | 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 | East to Salt Spring | Spring Again | Spring Blush |
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Summer Shade | Shift into Autumn | Winter Gray | Cowichan Bay Farm |
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Cherry Point Bridge | Lower Chemainus River | Hiking Above Cowichan Lake | Goldstream Estuary |
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Cowichan Farmland | 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 | Chemainus River Bend |
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View from Newcastle Island | Beach Walk, Cherry Point | Wend and Wander | Island Low Tide |
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Tracings of Spring | Longing for Florencia Bay | View from Stoney Hill Bluffs | Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet |
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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 | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace | Little Beach, Ucluelet | Fletcher's Beach |
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