Jewett's Store 1995

I moved to Vale Perkins, Quebec, 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.