Showing posts with label Arbutus menziesii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arbutus menziesii. Show all posts
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Saturday, September 22, 2012
'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
Thursday, September 6, 2012
'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
ancient beauty is mesmerizing.
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'Coastal Beauty'
Oil on canvas
24 x 24.
Your thoughts & comments are appreciated.
Jeffrey
Sunday, March 25, 2012
'Soul Sisters' *SOLD*
I've been somewhat missing-in-action in the
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
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*
*SOLD*
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