was up last week delivering new paintings to ethel curry gallery in haliburton after stopping to share a morning moment with a new friend at her century log home along the severn river, and haliburton led to a scoot around a wee bit of eagle lake quickly proving itself too too private for my tastes, before finding my way to margaret lake. 

margaret lake continues to visually make my eyes water so to speak with the endlessly novel interplay of wind and sun on the plant life growing up and out of the shallow waters of the inlet.

continuing to work light on the water as it wanders in among shoreline grasses while coming ashore, for me,  close to abstract as there is no horizon line, any sense of depth attributable to the staggered grasses sprouting out of the water or cluster patterns of lilies curving away into the hi ground.

windstirred with lilies

36″ x 22″                 ( click to enlarge / taken with phone camera )

watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel