'Good Morning Burgoyne Bay',(Canadian west coast Impressionism, Saltspring Island, Burgoyne Bay, spirits)

This painting was developed from reference photo's I

took while having a picnic lunch here last May. It

was very still and calm, almost as though we were the

only ones there. At our backs Mount Maxwell's cliffs rise

to their dizzying heights creating warm updrafts which

many turkey vultures and swallows were utilizing. As we

sat there scanning our surroundings and breathing in the

briny scents of low tide I could feel the presence of the

spirits that surely spend their eternity here.

Oil on canvas 36 x 48.

Your thoughts and comments are always a pleasure!

Jeffrey

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"If the air is full of sounds which we tune in with,

why should it not also be full of feels and smells and

things seen through the spirits,

drawing particles from us to them and

them to us like magnets."

(Emily Carr)