'Water Lover' oil on canvas 24 x 30

Showing posts with label Arbutus menziesii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arbutus menziesii. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

'Shore Sister'

'With smooth flowing red limbs defying gravity
She leans out over the sandstone shelf towards the sea
Inviting an intimate touch
Her strength vibrates on your palm
I feel a sense of peace in her presence'
~Jeffrey J. Boron~
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Oil on canvas 20 x 30.
Your thoughts & comments will be appreciated.
Jeffrey
 

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




Sunday, March 25, 2012

'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*