Natural History

Living in an area, just a kilometre or so from mountains and lakes, one cannot but help to embrace nature. I am literally surrounded by nature. Drive down my street, turn north along one of many forested roads and suddenly you are in the wild and untamed wilderness. The further north you go, the further you go from civilization. There is even a glacier and ice caves not that far away. If one likes to paint outdoor scenes, you do not have to go very far to find it in my area.

NOTE: More of my more recent Natural History artwork will be uploaded later this February. At present, I have over 30 new pieces in my currently running art show at the MAC Gallery (Rock Family Art Gallery) in Mission, BC, Canada.

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Three Sisters (version1). Acrylic paint on illustration board. Part of a series of paintings I have recently rendered, and currently working on, depicting various lakes within a easy car drive from from where I live. I hiked around this lake several times while making sketches and taking photographs during a late summer evening.

Hicks Lake. On August 3, 2019, I went out to Hicks Lake, which is located in Sasquatch Provincial Park in British Columbia. I explored the lake's shoreline and ended up with over 300 photos many of which were taken during the golden hour, the hour before sunset. My painting is an exploration of light and shadows on a water surface and the creation of the illusion of water depth. This is one of two paintings I have rendered of Hicks Lake (mixed medium: acrylics with ink on watercolour paper).

Lake at Dusk. Acrylic on canvas; 18x24-inches. This painting depicts a park in my area. Because of this painting, I was asked to create between 25 and 30 paintings depicting local natural history with a set deadline of mid-February, 2020.

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