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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Long Beach Luminescence | Above Lismer Bay | Quamichan Lake Reprise | The Talking Circle |
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Ode to an Island Forest | Coastal Silhouette | Peace of Mind | November Wickaninnish |
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Red Zen | Outward Bound | Snow Day | Sproat Lake View to Mount Kiltsa |
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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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Numinous | 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 | Whiskey Point, Mill Bay |
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Cowichan Bay Farm | Cherry Point Bridge | 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 | Chemainus River Bend | View from Newcastle Island |
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Beach Walk, Cherry Point | Wend and Wander | Island Low Tide | Tracings of Spring |
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Longing for Florencia Bay | View from Stoney Hill Bluffs | Rock and Rollers, Ucluelet | 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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I am the Beach, and here you shall find peace | Little Beach, Ucluelet | Fletcher's Beach | Ucluelet Driftwood |