Catherine Taron - Landscape

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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Love Like an Ocean	Peace Like a River	Morning Light	Safe Landing

One Fine Day	Clouds over Clayoquot	Another Path	Outward Bound

West Coast Totem	Heavy Weather	Dreamland Cowichan	Rapt in the Light

Drawn to the Light	Warmth in Winter	Still Sanctuary	Silent Passage

Renewal	Sunset Sail	Sun Salutation	Longing

Silent Reflection	Into the Sun	Pending Weather	Into the Mystic

Snow Day	Winter Creek	Wonder	Come Autumn!

Somenos Lake	Bird's Eye Cove	Somenos Garry Oak Reserve	Decompression

White-Barked Trees I	White-Barked Trees II	Mount Tzouhalem Arbutus	Out of the Showers into the Sun

Colour Shift	Falls	Lake Escape	Summer Showers

Pinnacle	Townend Road	Meadow	Tonquin Beach Lookout

Riverside	Cherry Point	Pick Up Sticks	Captured

Stranded	South Wickaninnish Beach	Rock and Roil	Surge and Shatter

Low Tide	Bridge at Esquimalt Lagoon	Shore Surge	Numinous

Cobble Shore	Field Day	Beach Day	Falls on the Chemainus River

Stoney Hill Arbutus	Lake View	Sun in Fog	Evening Sentinel

Tofino Surfers	Somenos Marsh	Maple Bay	Reclamation

Sea View	Stoney Hill Path	Coastal Forest	Bleeding Hearts

Breeze	Get Ready!	Reminiscence	Under the Autumn Canopy

Red Zen	East to Salt Spring	Spring Again	Spring Blush

Summer Shade	Shift into Autumn	Winter Gray	Whiskey Point, Mill Bay

Cowichan Bay Farm	Cherry Point Bridge	View from Mount Prevost	Lower Chemainus River

Hiking Above Cowichan Lake	Goldstream Estuary	Cowichan Farmland	Richard's Trail

Chemainus Riverbank	The Seventh Wave	Tofino Evening	Sundown Weather

Wave Study I	Wave Study II	Boats at Comox	Comox Shoreline

Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway	Stoney Hill Outlook	Trickster Moon	A Long Time Alone

High Summer, Quamichan Lake	Chemainus River Bend	View from Newcastle Island	I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace

Beach Walk, Cherry Point	Wend and Wander	Island Low Tide	Tracings of Spring

Longing for Florencia Bay	View from Stoney Hill Bluffs	Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet	Osborne Bay Too

Viridity: A State of Greeness	Rinse Cycle	Ever a New Day	The Victoriana

Rapacious Stillness, Great Blue Heron	Purple Martin Perch	Halcyon Kingfisher Day	Red-Tailed Hawk

Caw-cophony	Steller's Jays at Cowichan Bay	The Old Wickaninnish Inn 1977	Fog Wedge

Mackenzie Beach Driftwood	Tide Pool	West Coast Calm	Coastal Glow

Chesterman Beach Dog Walker	O Bluebirds, Welcome Back Again	Pollywogs	Black Rock Lupine I

Black Rock Lupine II	Herd Road Flooded Fields	Chemainus River at Swallowfield Road	View to Stuart Channel

Optical Delusion, the glass ball I wish I'd found!	Beach Dogs Walk	Long Beach April	Kwisitis Centre at Wickaninnish Beach

Surf Hut Fence at Jordan River Beach	Frank Island Rocks	Lone Surfer	View to Lovekin Rock

South Beach Driftwood	South Wickaninnish Bay	Waiting	View to Lennard Light

Sandhill Creek	West Coast Shoreline I	West Coast Shoreline II	Tofino Sunset

Quamichan Lake Blackbirds	Little Beach, Ucluelet	Fletcher's Beach	Ucluelet Driftwood