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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. 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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| The Golden Hour | Elevation | The Talking Circle | Chemainus River Bend |
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| Repose, Wickaninnish Beach | Special Delivery | Amaryllis | End of Season Tomatoes |
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| Snowdrops, Hope for Spring | Bright Angel Park | The Eagle Tree | Shore Watch |
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| A Good Morning | A Long Time Alone, West Coast Cove | Laughing Brook | Long Beach Luminescence |
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| Above Lismer Bay | Quamichan Lake Reprise | Ode to an Island Forest | Coastal Silhouette |
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| Peace of Mind | November Wickaninnish | Numinous | Red Zen |
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| Outward Bound | Snow Day | Sproat Lake View to Mount Kiltsa | Whiskey Point, Mill Bay |
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| View from Mount Prevost | Mill Bay Day | Night Watch | End of the Boardwalk, Osborne Bay |
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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 | 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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| Cobble Shore | Field Day | Beach Day | Falls on the Chemainus River |
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| Stoney Hill Arbutus | Lake View | Sun in Fog | Evening Sentinel |
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| Tofino Surfers | Somenos Marsh | Maple Bay | Reclamation |
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| Sea View | Stoney Hill Path | Coastal Forest | Bleeding Hearts |
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| Breeze | Get Ready! | Reminiscence | Under the Autumn Canopy |
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| East to Salt Spring | Spring Again | Spring Blush | Summer Shade |
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| Shift into Autumn | Winter Gray | Cowichan Bay Farm | Cherry Point Bridge |
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| Lower Chemainus River | Hiking Above Cowichan Lake | Goldstream Estuary | Cowichan Farmland |
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| Chemainus Riverbank | The Seventh Wave | Tofino Evening | Sundown Weather |
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| Wave Study I | Wave Study II | Boats at Comox | Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway |
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| Stoney Hill Outlook | Trickster Moon | 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 | Viridity: A State of Greeness | Rinse Cycle |
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| Ever a New Day | The Victoriana | Rapacious Stillness, Great Blue Heron | Purple Martin Perch |
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| Halcyon Kingfisher Day | Red-Tailed Hawk | Caw-cophony | Steller's Jays at Cowichan Bay |
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| The Old Wickaninnish Inn 1977 | Fog Wedge | Mackenzie Beach Driftwood | Tide Pool |
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| West Coast Calm | Coastal Glow | Chesterman Beach Dog Walker | O Bluebirds, Welcome Back Again |
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| Pollywogs | Black Rock Lupine I | Black Rock Lupine II | Herd Road Flooded Fields |
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| Chemainus River at Swallowfield Road | View to Stuart Channel | Optical Delusion, the glass ball I wish I'd found! | Beach Dogs Walk |
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| Long Beach April | Kwisitis Centre at Wickaninnish Beach | Surf Hut Fence at Jordan River Beach | Frank Island Rocks |
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| Lone Surfer | View to Lovekin Rock | South Beach Driftwood | South Wickaninnish Bay |
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| Waiting | View to Lennard Light | Sandhill Creek | West Coast Shoreline I |
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| West Coast Shoreline II | Tofino Sunset | Quamichan Lake Blackbirds | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace |
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| Little Beach, Ucluelet | Fletcher's Beach | Ucluelet Driftwood |