September 18, 2001
THE JOURNEY BEGINS
INTRODUCTION With all the planning behind us at last, we are on our way. It’s been over a year since the idea of returning to paint the coast crossed my mind. Painting for a month in such a beautiful, rich......
JOURNALS – Written
September 30, 2001
A SUPERIOR PARK
We hit the water a little late upon our arrival at Lake Superior Provincial Park. I was first introduced to Lake Superior when I went there to execute a commission for the Ministry of Natural Resources. The painting was...
October 11, 2001
AN EERIE EVENING ON LAKE SUPERIOR
I knew I probably should have packed up and gone back to camp a little earlier. I have painted into the dark many times before, but this was Lake Superior, a beautiful but very unpredictable place, especially in the fall.......
October 16, 2001
THE WINDS OF OCTOBER
We had little choice in the matter. Although we had arrived at French River Provincial Park with the intention of moving from one campsite to next each day, we had to stay put. It was a great campsite though, with......
March 9, 2002
KILLARNEY WHITES
The winter trip of our project didn’t exactly begin as planned. We made a stop at Swift Canoe in Gravenhurst to pick up a Raven Royalite solo canoe that I’m using for some winter paddling, and stayed over at our......
August 21, 2002
FALL IN THE SUMMER
As had been prearranged, we met up with local commercial fisherman Jim Dyson, who was taking us out to one of the western islands of the archipelago located east off the point of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park . About 4......
August 28, 2002
FRIENDS & SUMMER CAMPING
Leaving the north shore of Lake Superior reminded me of what a vast and incredible landscape this Great Lakes Heritage Coast contains. Even though I had already spent months though our travels painting along the coast, I still have a......
September 5, 2002
ISLAND HOPPING
A couple of years back when I did the “The Living Coast” painting to promote and celebrate the Great Lakes Heritage Coast, we traveled by boat to the Head Islands, which belongs to friends back in Caledon East. It’s a......
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