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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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| The Talking Circle | Ode to an Island Forest | Coastal Silhouette | Peace of Mind |
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| November Wickaninnish | Outward Bound | Sproat Lake View to Mount Kiltsa | Mill Bay Day |
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| Night Watch | 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 | 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 | Weathered Snag on Tofino-Ucluelet Highway | Stoney Hill Outlook |
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| Trickster Moon | A Long Time Alone | High Summer, Quamichan Lake | Chemainus River Bend |
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| View from Newcastle Island | I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace | Beach Walk, Cherry Point | Wend and Wander |
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| Island Low Tide | Tracings of Spring | Longing for Florencia Bay | View from Stoney Hill Bluffs |
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| Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet | Osborne Bay Too | 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 | Little Beach, Ucluelet |
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| Fletcher's Beach | Ucluelet Driftwood |