Summer Evening Izabella Point, 2023

Artist notes: The grasses are dry around the Arbutus trees and have an odd slightly pink hue in the early evening light due to wildfire smoke. Still, the beauty comes through and rests on the shoulders of possibility and if only.

The canvas is raw with scrapped mark making and vigorous brushstrokes that temper what would have otherwise been too pretty a work. Arbutus trees curl around the aged sandstone rocks with roots filtered behind long grasses. The dryness tinges our senses and makes us wish for rain.