Paintings that have found their forever home
Embracing the beauty of moments that come after storms—when everything feels renewed, yet hushed.
🏆 Honourable Mention (Green)
The inspiration image was taken by KJ in the Fall of 2021 as a late afternoon storm approached. The fading sunlight highlighted the wheat stems. The painting is on an old stretcher frame that is 4” deep.
Some autumn-coloured trees on a foggy day in the mountains above Boulder inspired this triptych, loosely painted to suggest the changing season. Tryptich
This is a view from the top balcony of a spacious year-round vacation home on the banks of this man-made lake in the Madawaska region of the Ottawa Valley. The light cast by the setting winter sun on the ice caught my eye.
I wanted the clouds and colours of this sky to speak of strength and potential danger, creating awe and even some fear of a coming storm. The painting was inspired by a photo I took of a fabulous sky just after arriving by plane in Cairns on the east cost of Australia.
🏆 Crystal Award (Gallery Ring :Land Sky Water" 🌐)
Blue Horizon #1 is, as named the first in a series of paintings of Lake Huron looking west from the beach in Southampton. The sky and water on a sunny day are magical and can be captured in a variety of styles. I used rough stokes to capture the energy of the clouds and water and kept the shape of Chantry Island purposely blurred.
Although not part of my August 2020 show, Namibia Moments at Propeller Gallery I continue to paint from images of my trip. The seemingly endless sand and sky are always a fascination for me.
Galehead Hut is the most remote in the Appalachian Mountain Club hut system, with views that are well worth the day’s climb to reach it.
Exploring the Madawaska region of Renfrew County in eastern Ontario on a perfect autumn day we drove through this tunnel of golden magic on the Kennelly Mountain Road.
The acacia tree is everywhere in Namibia and is often the only shape to be seen in the desert.
Inspired by the same sunset cruise as for Okavango Mellow, I kept this small painting very simple with suggestions of light and shadow.
Red sky in evening #1 is one of three paintings I made inspired by a photograph taken at Calgary airport. This version focuses on the brightness of the sky.
Although the colour of the sky is not red it appears somewhat ominous.
I love the lines and shadows of the dock and the reflection of the red ramp in the water on a December day. As with View from the Dock, I carefully blended the paint onto the slightly pebbled surface of the paneled board.
Our painting community kept occupied with weekly challenges during the first year of the Covid lockdowns. The subject for this sketch reminded me of the barns that both sets of my grandparents had on their properties. I wanted to show this one still standing tall while the vegetation slowly overtakes it.
Another painting on paper created in our weekly challenges during the first year of the Covid lockdowns. I loved using a palette knife to create the sharp outline of the barn and the softness of the trees and fields and the energy of the sky.
Using the same source photo as Susquehannock Forest #3, I used a cooler lighter sky, and more green was applied with palette knives to add texture.
This quick study was another of my painting community’s weekly challenges and based on a photo of a fire that was set every night in our room to take away the evening chill in the Sierra Norte mountains of Oaxaca state in Mexico. I spent a wonderful week hiking the mountain trails linking the villages of the Pueblos Mancomunados.
I created this as an experiment in combining colours that remained on my palette, leftovers from other paintings. It developed over a couple of sessions until I saw the flames, reminding me of the Arenal volcano exhausting flames into a cloudy sky.
This painting speaks of the colours and expansiveness of the terrain and of the big bright skies.
🏆 Juror's Choice Award (OPEN 🌐)
I loved the brightly coloured posts marking the stairway to the beach against the sand, the ocean, and the brilliant sky.
🏆 Finalist (Fusion Arts "Waterscapes" 🌐)
For Northerners, the winter escape is epitomized by bright blue water, sunshine and a beach. Picture yourself here.