Returning to Sandhills Park to draw with artist, Linda Duvall who is here with her project from August 28 to September 8, 2023. During my time in June the white pines over looking the hole beckoned me to draw them.
chalk pastel
Thank you to Inter Art Matrix for choosing me to be in this project. I recognize the funding received by Inter Arts Matrix from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Waterloo Region Community Foundation.
10 paintings from the exhibition are now at the Kitchener Downtown Business Improvement Association office, 54 Queen St S, in Kitchener across the street from Queen Street Commons. Open between 10am and 5pm, Monday through Friday.
Following Homer Watson’ footsteps I found images like his – riverside views, trails in the woods, individual trees, stands of trees. The paintings were done on the spot, following Homer Watson’s method of “plein air” painting, a method that he himself borrowed from the painters he admired, precursors of the Impressionist movement such as Constable, Corot, and the painters of the Barbizon. Like Homer Watson, I wanted these paintings to raise our awareness that we all need these natural wooded areas, these landscapes and these points of view to be preserved for our collective health and spiritual well being.
Thanks to the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund for a grant in 2014 to make these paintings possible.