I have relied heavily on photographs in this body of work. I just had to, the paintings are very detailed, the structures were huge and while I did make notes and sketches on site, brought back samples for colour and texture references there was just too much going on at the sites to be able to take it all in so I took many many pictures. I found myself painting in that level of detail because I wanted to capture every variance in colour and texture. My in-house geologist-in-training says that geologists need to see the details to interpret the structure. Every painting I finish I feel a need to go back and look at the structure again.
This year I was honoured to be one of the winners of the Provincial Arts & Letters competition. This is the piece submitted, Tension Gash at Tickle Cove.
It was a last minute decision to enter and I was very happy to have been a part of the exhibition at the
Rooms. I found this structure on the trail to the Arch in Tickle Cove on the Bonavista Peninsula. I checked a geology map and found there were many anticlines and synclines in one area. Here is a pic of the structure:
Quartz veins is another thing I'm documenting, I love how they track along, I thought this was so unusual I had to paint it.
This is a body of smaller paintings that I have been working on in-between the bigger pieces. This exhibit is just another chapter in my journey to something...I'm not sure what, I just have to keep going where the road takes me.
