Onyx Creek
These 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.
A short paddle to the far shore, oil on canvas, 50x72”
Pink Horizon, oil on canvas, 48x72”
Flight of the Kingfisher III, oil on canvas, 60x92”
But all I heard was blue, oil on canvas, 60x96”
And I soon lost sight of you, oil on canvas, 60x98”
I laid my paddle lengthwise, 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”
We sheltered under the trees by the empty cabin round the point, oil on canvas, 54x66”