Stream with blue log

Stream with blue log

The purple under-painting covers the unknown, the dense mystery of the woodland teaming with birth, growth and decay.  The stream flows through mossy rocks, tumbled debris on the forest floor and disappears back into the undergrowth. 

Stream with blue log, 4' x 5', acrylic on canvas 

detail: Stream with blue log

detail: Stream with blue log

Streams crisscross the wilderness of Cape Breton Highlands, sometimes pouring down rock faces, other-times spreading out across the floor of the Acadian forest. They reveal and conceal, erode and build, carry and deposit: a life force traveling down to the sea.

Stream in Blue: Acadian Trail, Cape Breton,  18" x 24", acrylic on canvas

Hiking this past summer and fall provided lots of inspiration for new work.  Landscapes provide a starting point: "Art picks up where nature ends.": Marc Chagall.  

Two rocks three logs Bluff Wilderness 30" x 30" acrylic on canvas

Along the Acadian Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, streams rush to join the Chéticamp River.  Tumbled trunks and mossy banks line the brook on its way to the bottom of the valley.

Stream: Acadian Trail  30" x 60"  acrylic on canvas