While most of my paintings just happens, this current group of paintings is more purposeful in its intent. “Interpreting Muskoka” attempts to interpret the beauty of Muskoka woods. I was inspired and challenged to recreate the colors of the trees and leaves, their shadows and highlights, changing with the time of the day, season and ambient temperature, the discarded birch bark lying on the ground (featuring as media in the current series), adding light and reflecting back the color of the moss, stone and ground, and the knotted tree roots marking their territory... But more importantly I tried to convey the many ways in which a walk in the nature, nourishes and cleans the soul, reframing our position in the world.
“I took a walk into the woods and I came out taller than the trees.”- Henry David Thoreau
“Amalgamate”
“Afterglow”
“Autumn Layers”
“The Poetry of Leaves”
