Onyx Creek
These new works are landscape based in the loosest sense. With narrative titles, and a scale nearly large enough to walk into, these oil on canvas paintings dissolve the water’s surface with colour and staccato brushwork. Using oil sticks to draw into paint, gesture and line are a counterpoint to broad washes of pure colour.
Flight of the Kingfisher III, oil on canvas, 60x92”
We parked near Line 17, oil on canvas, 60x98”
You moved off with your camera, oil on canvas, 60x98”
And I soon lost sight of you, oil on canvas, 60x98”
I laid my paddle lengthwise, oil on canvas, 60x96”
And drifted, one ear tuned to the dip of your paddle, oil on canvas, 60x96’
But all I heard was blue, oil on canvas, 60x96”
Flight of the Kingfisher II, oil on canvas, 60.5x100.5”
Flight of the Kingfisher I, oil on canvas, 48x60”
The arc and dip of my paddle, oil on canvas, 50x60”
Pink Sky at Morning, oil on canvas, 54x66
The wind drove us to shore, oil on canvas, 54x66”
We sheltered under the trees by the empty cabin round the point, oil on canvas, 54x66”