Vale Perkins, Quebec: Selections from an Ongoing Series

 

 

After the Rain      ( 2011)                                     30"x40"

 

 

Knowlton Landing     (Spring, 2011)                                     24 "x40"

 

 

 


                                       Winter's End          (Leadville Road, Vale Perkins)  2010             30" x 40"

 

 

 

 

 

                                   Chemin du Lac     (2010)                                          12" x 36"

 

The Vale Perkins Series continues. Over the past fifteen years I have been painting the land and houses around the place I call home. Most of the structures have bravely weathered time; this little ex-church on Chemin du Lac is currently boarded up, for sale. The paintings are not faithfully realistic. They depict an ordered reality, a suspended state of all time and all seasons - a space suffused with light and stillness.

 

 

 

 

 

                      Fall, Chemin du Lac, Vale Perkins, Quebec   (2010)          (sold)          30" x 48"

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                      Jewett's Store         2008   (sold)



I moved to Vale Perkins in 1994, having found a small inexpensive cabin that suited my need to work in solitude. There were many reasons I chose to make it my home – the inspiring landscape, the way my neighbors chose to live modestly, a sense that the people in the community cared about one another. But maybe above all, I loved some of the little houses around Potton that seemed to survive bravely in the face of a changing world. Their scale suggested a harmony with nature rather then an attempt to dominate it. I painted them to perserve them.

These paintings are a tribute to this place I call home, to my neighbors, to the spirits of the past that dwell in Vale Perkins and the Canton of Potton, Quebec..

 

 

   

                                                                       Jewett's Store              1995       sold

 

 

 

 

 

Goldenrod  near Potton Springs      30 x 48"       sold

 

 

 

 

 

                                             Field                             30 x 48"              sold

 

 

 

 

                                           Snow Receding                                            30 x 48"         (sold)

 

 

 

 

 

 

                       Church and School        14 x 24"                        sold

 

 

 

 

 

  Owl's Head      36 x 54" 

 

 

 

 

 

   Owl's Head - Autumn    14 x 24"     

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Lyle's Place (Old Post Office)    14 x 24"     

 

 

 

 

 

             Spring Thaw on Lac Trousers     16 x 20" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Late March along Leadville Road       30 x 48" 

 

 

 

 

 

 George Smart's Woodshed    24 x 30"

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 House and Field                            14 x 24"

 

 

 

 

Ancient Land   16 x 30"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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