Paintings Sold this Summer

Here are some of my latest paintings that sold in a spring art show in Sundre, Alberta.

The Colours of Autumn

Series of 5

Each Canvas is 8"x8"

Acrylic on Canvas

Sold

Climbing a Mountain
Series of 5
8 inch x 8 inch canvases
Acrylic on Canvas
Sold

An angled shot of one canvas from "Climbing a Mountain" series

Sunny Pine in the Rockies

Acrylic on Canvas

3x4 feet

Sold

Midnight in the Rockies

Acrylic on Canvas

Triptych 10"x33"

Sold

A Quiet Hideaway

Acrylic on Canvas

2.5x2.5 feet

Sold

Birch in the Autumn Sun

Acrylic on Canvas

3x3 feet

Sold

Coastal Cedar Near Hope, BC

Acrylic on Canvas

3 Feet x 6 Feet

This painting was sold to a couple who had just built their own log home.  They used cedar logs so it was fitting.  Cedar are not native to the Rockies around Sundre so I had never studies or painted them before.  It was a lot of fun to try something different.

September Sunshine

Acrylic on Canvas

(Series of 5) Each Canvas is 8" x 8"

Sold

Paintings from this Summer/Fall

Thick Forest in Autumn

Stacked Triptych.  These paintings look great on a small, narrow wall in a house.  I found they bring life to those lifeless corners that are too small for a larger painting.

This was a commission for a couple who had red furniture in their living room.  This was hung above their love seat and it really tied in the colors in the room.  I loved how they coordinated it.

Simple and crisp.  This was a commission for a woman who liked the colors in my work, but wanted something that had less going on.  

I was in our family cabin when I painted this one.  My sister just moved into a log house and I was painting this for her.  If you look out the window of the cabin you can see some of my inspiration.

Autumn Inspiration

My First Solo Art Show.  Here is the Poster.  

Standing beside one of the canvases that was as tall as me.  I felt like I was in a forest as I was painting it.  

This diptych was of a view from an old rundown cabin on a lake in the NWT.  

Waiting the Wind Out

Calm morning on Great Slave Lake

Some miniatures of birch

Spring Trees, Triptych

Sunny Autumn Walk

Reid Lake

Madeline Lake

Prelude Lake

These paintings are shaped like lakes in the NWT around Yellowknife.  

A Walk Along Frame Lake

Storm at the Cabin

Looking Skyward

Some Commissions in 2013

This was the most challenging and wonderful commission I have had yet as an artist.  A couple asked me if I would help them design a very unique painting that would fill up a large wall they had in their house.  We came up with this.  The couple built the canvas frames and I stretch the canvas and painted on them.  It looked better hung on their yellow wall, but here is a picture of it on the wall I painted it on.

A commission done for a friend who loves the colors of Autumn.  It was a larger canvas.  4x8 feet.

Character Birch

Some 4x4 inch small miniatures

Up close on one of the miniatures

Here is a commissioned piece that I painted for a neighbour.  They ordered it around Christmas time and I can't help but think that the season might have had an impacted on the colors chosen too.  They hung it on a 20 foot high wall above a fireplace.  It looks great.

Paintings For an Art Expo

I had the privilege to enter into an art expo in Yellowknife.  All the artists get together and rent a large space and fill it with all their work.  It was a lot of fun meeting so many art lovers in the community.

This painting is a diptych.  The woman who bought it was hanging it in a sun filled room so I sprayed it with a uv protective coat.  It looked wonderful hanging in such a bright space.

This picture doesn't capture the painting well.  The canvas was 6 feet tall and 1 foot wide, making it hard to photograph.  I personally love how yellow and a burnt looking red look together.  The couple who bought this piece hung it in an entryway by their stairs.  

Yellow Forest

Red Forest

This painting was done for a woman who had bought 5 of my paintings.  Her favourite color was red so I thought I'd paint this small canvas for her as a Christmas present.  I know birch leaves aren't red... But this is one advantage with painting a picture instead of taking a picture.

Signal Hill, Yellowknife

Cameron Falls, Yellowknife

A Bright Autumn Day

Thick Texture on a Birch Tree

Cloudy Autumn Day

Storm on Great Slave Lake

Ice Castle Show

I had an incredible opportunity in March to have 12 of my pieces exhibited an ice castle.  The "Snow King" builds it every year in Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake and it usually holds over 100 people.  We drove 8 inch spikes into the snow walls and hung the work.

The paintings jumped off the walls because they looked so bright against the snow with the natural sunlight coming in.

Sunlight From Above

Misty morning on the Lake

Dwarf and Alaskan Birch

Autumn Colors