'South Island Light'

'South Island Light'
oil on canvas 
30 x 40

'I would like to wish you a Happy Solstice with a hope that at this time, as the rhythms of the natural world align themselves to the return of the light, that we all take some time to reflect.

Many at this time are anxious to find an answer to questions of why, how and who's fault. As it has been said many times in song and verse the answer lies within us all, not in a book or a law or a particular belief but inside our individual human souls. We all share the blame and we all have the answers. As we welcome the light think of the things you as a human being would wish to leave behind and what it is that you would welcome into our new year ahead.  We all have the human qualities to love and hate. We all have the right to seek and achieve happiness. These are some of the things that make us human. Please try to open your heart and mind to love, peace and happiness.' 

~Jeffrey J. Boron~

A couple of quotes...

“Things do not change; we change.” 

― Henry David Thoreau

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters

compared to what lives within us.” 

-Henry David Thoreau

'Alpine Morning'

'Alpine Morning' oil 24 x 30

Wishing you all peace, love & joy

this holiday season,

and all the best for 2013.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey

I would like to leave you with a poem from the

American poet Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

'The Rugged Coast'

Watching the incredible force of these Pacific

swells being thrown skyward by these

coastal ramparts is a thrilling

experience.

The knowledge that there are many animals

and birds that call this ecosystem home

makes you aware just how tenuous  

 our hold is to mother earth.

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Oil on canvas 22 x 28

Thoughts & comments always welcomed.

Jeffrey

'Winter On The Beach'

On a winters day such as this,

paradise seems so very close at hand...

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'Winter on the Beach'
oil on wood panel 
8 x 10.

Thoughts & comments are always encouraged.

Jeffrey

'Follow The Leader'

On a day when the whole universe is nothing

more or less, than warm sand, cool water
 and sunny skies that will last forever,

and we...

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Oil on wood panel 6 x 8.

Your thoughts & comments are always valued.

Jeffrey

'Winter Memory'

Funny thing about memories, how something

from your past can become anothers' memory

but for an entirely different reason,

 even though the making of the new 

memory is because of the original one.

Yeah I know...but its true.

=8-/

I delivered this piece to a new and happy collector

earlier this week. Now, this memory is my memory

and I just passed it on to you.

(I think????)

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Oil on canvas 22 x 28.

SOLD

Your thoughts and comments would, I'm sure, be helpful.

Jeffrey

'Samhain Tapestry'

"May the energies be reversed:

From darkness, light!

From bane, good!

From death, birth!"

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 'Samhain Tapestry'
oil on wood panel 
8 x 10.

Your thoughts & comments greatly appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Morning Ferry'

On a morning such as this it is hard to imagine

the forces that have shaped these island

warriors. The beauty and peacefulness of the

Salish Sea when the morning overcast

mutes the brilliant colour of the sunrise and

softens the sounds of stillness, it can be deceptive.

But for right now standing there on these

volcanic remnants we whisper so we will hear

the chatter of the Oyster Catchers when they rise 

off the Gillinghams and the Kingfisher

when it declares its marine territory

before diving into the sea

for its prey...

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Oil on canvas 
20 x 30.

Your thoughts & comments are always encouraged.

Jeffrey

'Highrock Colour'

I painted on Sunday evening in one of my

favourite local spots and fall is in full

glory there right now. 

I continue to find inspiration in this little park 

that is only a very short distance

from my studio.

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Oil on wood panel 6 x 8.

Your thoughts & comments are always welcomed.

Jeffrey

'Cottonwood & Pumpkins'

Spent a wonderful harvest time afternoon painting

in some Saanich pumpkin fields with

fellow plein air harvest artist

Linny D. Vine.

My wishes for a

warm and safe happy Thanksgiving

to you all.

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Oil on wood panel 9 x 12.

Your thoughts & comments are always appreciated.

Jeffrey

A Harvest Artist

'The Tangled Shore'

This is one of the paintings I did while

on a recent trip to Saltspring Island.

The Big Leaf maples were showing lots of colour.

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Oil on wood panel 10 x 8.

Your added thoughts & comments are valued.

Jeffrey

'September Morning-Gillingham Islands'

Not for the first time, I must say that painting

here on the south end of Vancouver Island 

in the wonderful September light

is one of my most treasured 

times of the year.

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Oil on wood panel 9 x 12.

Your thoughts & comments would be appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Summer Breeze'

This piece was sort of a study done for 

another larger piece and may

continue to be the focus

for still another

painting.

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Oil on wood panel 8 x 6.

Your thoughts & comments are appreciated.

Jeffrey

AGGV House Tour 2012

Last Sunday I had the honour of being one of the six

Victoria area artists to be featured in the

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's

"HOUSE TOUR 2012"

This popular annual event has been organized by the

'GALLERY ASSOCIATES' 

since 1953!!!!!!

Special thanks to them, AGGV volunteers (there were many)

the corporate sponsors and all the many hundreds 

of ticket buying visitors and of course

the six home owners that opened their homes

for the event.

I was placed at the wonderful waterfront home on

Gonzales Bay...wow! I have uploaded a few photo's

of my day...

I started out with warm sun at my back lighting

up my subject. That soon changed (several times).

done, cleaned up and ready to pack up...

'Gonzales Shore'

oil on wood panel

12  x 16

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Your thoughts & Comments always appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Coastal Beauty'

As I sit here languishing in late summer bliss,

here on the south Island we are enjoying some of the

best weather of the year, I feel somewhat of a

grasshopper whiling away the days as 

the cool wet months approach. 

The beauty of the west coast  is never ending

for me. The sensuous grace of the Arbutus trees,

there fox red bark splitting in the August heat.

The newly exposed, smooth, pale green of the new bark 

compels my caress. 

Often situated in the most gravity defying locations their
ancient beauty is mesmerizing. 
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 'Coastal Beauty'
Oil on canvas
 24 x 24.
Your thoughts & comments are appreciated.
Jeffrey

'Tidal Treasures'

There is nothing that provokes the animation

of the human spirit and imagination like

hot sun, warm sand and a really low tide...

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Oil on wood panel 8 x 10.

Your thoughts & comments would be appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Summer Heat'

A painting done one hot morning back in July,

on the trail above Swan Lake.

These Weeping willows caught my eye. 

They hide and shade a magical pool 

on a creek that feeds the lake.

 Their drooping, sunlit, frond like 

branches had my hand moving as if 

painting before I even set up.

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Oil on wood panel 8 x 10.

Your comments are always welcomed & valued.

Jeffrey

'Summer On The Sooke'

A very popular swimming and hiking area here on

the south coast it is also a critical salmon

spawning river.

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Oil on canvas 22 x 28

Your thoughts & comments  are always appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Evening Magic'

That magical moment just as the sun sets leaving

its golden glow on the landscape.

Those warm and mellow summer evenings

with the swallow families twisting and

darting as they chase down flying insects.

High above night hawks circle back and

fourth their white wing bars flashing in 
the golden light. 

These are the halcyon days

of summer we will dream of in late November.

Breathe deeply...

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Oil on canvas 22 x 28.

Your thoughts and comments are valued.

Jeffrey

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HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE!!

'Burgoyne Sky'

Once again I had the pleasure of painting in

the old hayfields of Burgoyne Bay Park on

Saltspring Island. I was able to enjoy the company 

of many variety's of birds including, this time,

Martins and Goldfinches.

The painting started out in conditions much as 

you see in this image.

However 30 minutes into it things rapidly

changed and found me running with easel, painting,

full palette and backpack for the van.

A sudden downpour tends to have that

affect on a brollyless plein airist.

This piece was completed a couple days later 

back home in the studio...

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Oil on wood panel 11 x 14.

Your thoughts &  comments would be a pleasure.

Jeffrey

'Cusheon Lake Evening'

One of the pieces I painted while on 

a recent adventure to Saltspring Island.

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'Cusheon Lake Evening'
oil on wood panel 
12 x 9
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Your thoughts & comments are always appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Last Light Botany Bay'

"The quiet is broken only by the small waves being pushed

ashore by the incoming tide.

You can sense something deeper in the cool stillness.

Soon the coming dusk will envelope the world

where you stand looking...and listening.

Yet you delay leaving,

though the trail back is long and growing ever darker.

Then, raven's call disturbs your reverie

and reluctantly you turn away from the sea 

and head for the trail."

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Oil on wood panel 6 x 8.

Your thoughts &  comments are always appreciated.

Jeffrey

'South Chesterman Sunrise'

Sometimes a scene so endears its self to you

that once is not enough. This is my 

third attempt at this scene ...

(Is he done with it yet?  You might ask ) 

=:- /

Perhaps, maybe, but, what if...?

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Oil on wood panel 6 x 8.

Your thoughts & comments are sought...

Jeffrey

'West Coast Sunset'

"The tide has retreated with the setting sun

and with it the rolling surf that roared on to 

the beach just a short time ago.
Calm and almost tranquil, the sea now rests.
You feel its breath on your face 
in short breezy gusts of 
cool marine air.
No longer fearing its force you stroll to its
edge and gaze seaward where 
it seems to sleep.
Aware that not long from now its might will,
once again, send you scurrying to the
trees and rocks that hold her at bay.
Such beauty and raw power has always drawn
us to her like a mystical force 
we cannot deny."

-Jeffrey J. Boron-

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Oil on canvas 
40 x 30.
Your thoughts & comments would be appreciated.
Jeffrey

'Early Morning Frank Island'

An early morning walk on Chesterman Beach with big surf,

what a sight. The many surfers on this October morning

commonly exclaimed "Oh sweet" as they ran toward

the in-coming breakers launching themselves

and their boards into the water.

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Oil on canvas 30 x 48.

Your further thoughts & comments are valued.

Jeffrey

'Spring Sky & Camas'

Though I had gone to paint the soul enriching Camas,

the clouds in the spring sky seemed to 

over take my efforts.

It was easier to watch the swallows too =;-))

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'Spring Sky & Camas'
oil on wood panel
 6 x 8.

Your thoughts & comments enrich the post.

Jeffrey

'Cattle Point Camas'

This years Camas bloom at Cattle Point is nothing

 short of spectacular. However due to the areas rocky terrain

and this weekends heat and drying winds it will very

quickly start the inevitable dying off.

The time of the Camas always seems

to take forever to start but so 

soon to end...

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Oil on wood panel 9 x 12.

Your thoughts & comments always welcomed!

Jeffrey

'South Island Meadow'

This piece was worked up from a plein air

painting done last spring during the

the spring Camas bloom.

I have recently been out painting more

Camas. Sadly they are already passing the height

of this years blooming.

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Oil on canvas 24 x 36.

Your thoughts & comments are valued.

Jeffrey

'Low Tide Adventures'

'An adventure most magical,
when the tides run out leaving that which was inaccessible,
exposed to unlimited exploration.
The warm spring sun on winter hidden skin,
the cries of sea birds carried on the sea breeze,
and then you find it...'
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Oil on wood panel 16 x 20.
Your thoughts & comments would be appreciated.
Jeffrey

'Chesterman Surf'

It has been awhile since my last post due to 

technical difficulties %&$!!! 

=:-0

It seems I had to upload Google Chrome?

Who'da thunkit...

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Beautiful Pacific surf on an early morning

beach stroll...talk about a 

different universe!

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Oil on wood panel 6 x 8.

I'm baaaaaaack!

Comments are always welcomed.

Jeffrey

'On An Ebbing Tide'

Soon the tide will retreat toward its source.

Surging, splashing waves will be transformed into

miles of open beach left silent now that the waves

have moved seaward. What was once a barrier to

further travel and exploration is now a silent

undulating and somewhat eerie expanse of freedom.

Exhilarating to walk on as the skies clear

and the afternoon light begins to fade

into evening...

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Oil on canvas 30 x 40.

Your thoughts & comments are always appreciated.

Jeffrey

'Soul Sisters' *SOLD*

I've been somewhat missing-in-action in the

blogoshere as the opening for my 
two person show with Linny D. Vine draws nigh

 and last minute preparations seem to mount.

All the paintings were delivered to the

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria yesterday

and that felt real gooooood.

Six more sleeps to the reception  =:-/

I have been painting though, if somewhat

distractedly.

This painting features those wonderful west coast

trees the Arbutus. Though the mighty cedars

and firs are regaled as the trees of the

west coast it is the Arbutus that holds sway

with my soul. Feminine and sensual in

character they are sacred to many of

the first peoples here on the south coast.

When you breathe in the scent of their profuse blossoms,

 see the bountiful bright red clusters of their 
edible berries among the leathery evergreen leaves

or sit quietly on a hot still mid summer afternoon and

hear the thin layers of bark begin to audibly crack

and peel from the smooth trunks,

you begin to understand...

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Oil on wood panel 18 x 24.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Jeffrey
*SOLD*