Great Lakes Paintings

My parents had a cottage on Lake Huron from the time I was four. I grew up every summer and every weekend through out the year playing in Lake Huron, on her frozen mounds in winter and in her shoreline dunes and forests.

I felt strongly bonded with this coastline and it was my greatest friend. The lake and forests spoke to me and calmed me through all of life's journeys. It was my greatest wish to live at the Lake all year long every day and avoid the city and school. As an adult I received my wish and lived in a little cabin off the grid on the Bruce Peninsula for 6 years and then a heritage farm for another 6 years. My time on the Bruce in Black Bear country was my first great adult adventure. I experienced infamous Great Lakes storms and enjoyed the peripheral company of a family of bears.

The "white light" of this area and it's sudden dramatic storms has always fascinated me and inspired my work.

All of these painting are SOLD, however, Circle Arts Gallery in Tobermory Ontario continues to represent my paintings.

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West Coast Paintings

Hiking and Kayaking on and around Pender Island is a powerful inspiration to my work. Pender Island is one of the southern Gulf Islands cradled between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia.

In summer, I watched the Orcas swim and hunt salmon right by the shoreline. All year is full with sightings of eagles, seals, otters, ravens and copious ocean life. It is the strange and unusual ocean life that is the inspiration for my latest work "Energy Series". I just began the Energy series in late August, so there are more on the way.

I find the palette on Pender Island and the West Coast in general is full of purples and oranges and oftened shadowed by the trees. This is quite different from the "white light" of the Great Lakes.

Each day is a joy to me!

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Videos

Follow my Pender Bender Productions adventures around Pender Island as I will be adding new videos with my new camera.

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