The Avenue Gallery, Oak Bay, Victoria, BC Canada – October 21st – November 1st 2021.
This pandemic kept me close to home. For the last few summers the boat was my escape vehicle.
Travelling by boat was all about deciphering passages. These paintings were inspired on these trips.
The sea and surrounding land heads speak. Space, depth, distance and warnings are their language.
The read and the approach is important. You got to love the primordial sea as an ancient metaphor.
Meaning: Passages; the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another.
‘Entrance’ Little Bull Pass. 48 X 48 in. oil on canvas
‘The Great Wall’ the way to Desolation Sound. 36 X 48 in. oil on canvas
‘Narrows at Sunset’ Approaching Dodd’s Narrows. 36 X 60 in. oil on canvas
‘Rock at High Tide’ Brickyard Park, Nanoose Bay. 36 X 60 in. oil on canvas
‘Running Stack’ Barkley Sound. 348 X 36 in. oil on canvas
‘Siren’ Cliffs off Bull Pass. 36 X 36 in. oil on. canvas
‘Veil’ Salish Sea, Mainland Mountains. 36 X 36 in. oil on canvas
‘Covenant’ Winchelsea islands. 36 X 60 in. oil on canvas
‘Whitecaps Off Lighthouse’ Ballenas Islands. 36 X 60 in. oil on canvas
‘Point’ Botanical Beach. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board
‘Golden Stack’ Deer islands. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board.
‘Ghosted Coast’ Barkley Sound. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board
‘Watchers’ Pender island. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board
‘Spotted Cliffs’ Wallace island. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board.
‘Jewel’ Yellow Point Beach. field study – 12 X 12 in. oil on prepared board.
