'Spring Tide - Gulf Islands'

A beautiful spot at anytime, Saltspring Island's Burgoyne

Bay is stunning on a sunny morning in late

May which often co-insides with a spring tide.

These tides are those which fall during the full moon or

new moon phases and are noted for the very

extreme high-highs and low-lows of tide levels.

At these times the earth, sun and moon alien

to produce maximum force of gravity creating

those extremes in tide levels.

Also my favourite time to paint seashore scenes.

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Oil on wood panel 18 x 24.

Your thoughts & comments always welcomed!

Jeffrey

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"Live each season as it passes,

breathe the air,

drink the drink,

taste the fruit,

and resign yourself to the influences of each."

(Henry David Thoreau)

'Gulf Island Morning'

This view of the Burgoyne Bay tidal flats was for many

years the front yard of several homes and a few squatters.

It would have been absolutely magical. Once the park

was declared the houses were removed though remnants

of the old gardens remain to spark the imagination of

those who wander here. The land rises behind you to

an old farm and its many lovely hay fields which are leased

to keep them agricultural. The old farm buildings that

remain are being restored as part of the park.

Of course before contact this was a very significant

location for the first peoples of this area.

Oil on canvas 30 x 36.

Your thoughts and comments are welcomed!

Jeffrey

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Please email me if you would like information

about acquiring this painting.

jjboronart@shaw.ca

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'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)