Arthur Van - One of a Kind Show

The Crossing

Cyprus Lake on the Bruce Peninsula Time has tried time has pounded imprinted history on the crossing bending and buckling the walkway protecting the vulnerable the impressionable fragile ecosystem below Winter has tried Sun has tried they've thrown their best the crossing survives a platform to survey sanctuary below

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 18 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Where it's At

Bruce Trail off Dyers Bay Road - Bruce Peninsula National Park - Tobermory - Ontario Where it's At nostrils fill earth and air spongy moss greens everywhere in the trees color bursts fiery finish feeding thirst maples nurtured oaks nursed proud display sacrificed works transitory moments beginning and ends you find yourself on the path immersed in the beauty of where it’s at

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 30 x 24 x 2
Price: $820 - available at the show

Wetland Walkway

Boardwalk at Cyprus Lake at Bruce Peninsula National Park, Tobermory , Ontario water rises water falls edge of lake adventure calls so distracted by the view miss the danger where feet follow through rocks are slimy roots they grip ankles slide feet get tripped danger lurks while beauty brays like a siren look this way wooden highway hovers wide gaze at the lake safely stride get distracted by the view the path is safe under you

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Crunch - Crunch - Crunch - Crunch

Bruce Trail off Dyers Bay Road - Bruce Peninsula - Tobermory - Ontario The fresh smell of fall leaves brings life to my footsteps they’ve shed their collective crowns once ablaze with fiery color maples, birches, walnuts, all bare arms and fingers now reach to the sky stretching for any warmth getting the juices flowing wrapping onto rocks roots tendril out clinging seeking purchase trip wire obstacles peek out from cast off adornments once topping hearty soldiers of the wood underneath, the small gather burrowing building bunkers away from the path of foragers announced as they pass by crunch, crunch , crunch, crunch gorging for the coming fast winter winds are coming so much more needs to be done

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 18 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Are you Coming?

Cypress Lake - Bruce Trail - Bruce Peninsula National Park - Tobermory - Ontario fade into the grass, wade through the tall grasses of a once proud lake tiny nest like tunnels arched warren passageways crisscrossing well worn pathways traverse for the community of the small inquisitive hunters foragers among the tall slender blades watch your step now mind your foot falls heavy who can we find?

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 18 x 2 inches
Price: 480 - available at the show

Caress

Grotto Trail - Cyprus Lake - Bruce Trail - Bruce Peninsula National Park - Tobermory - Ontario Winter Wonderland Splendor dripping caramel, liquorice and coconut flow bathe the escarpment undaunted neapolitan frozen fingers flow slowly melt caress everything downhill over and around everything encountered over the fallen past the standing stalwart stouthearted soldiers of the shade determined to thwart the advance blocking melting rays of life’s giving engine

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $ 480 - available at the show

Vanguards of the North

Winter Roars in Like a Lion - Cove at the Grotto - Looking North Vanguards of the North like a lion, winter roars in. soft snow encasing the cliffs edge crystallized becomes hard slick ice proud pines deform, warped, flexing against the roar, adamantly clutching frozen rock. A vanguard enduring natures force.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Slide into the Lake

Cove at the Grotto - Looking South - Georgian Bay on the Bruce Trail - Bruce Peninsula National Park Slide into the Lake Georgian Bay spits spraying icy licks windswept exposed shore glazing topping limestone frosting oblivious enticing slippery sliding battered unwitting into frigid undulating swallowing gaping insatiable wide open mouth.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: 480 - available at the show

Lost in the City

An amazing place right in the middle of a big city .A tiny bit of nature and escapism. The Humber River Recreational Trail near Eglinton Avenue in Toronto. I would cycle my bike along here or go for runs and see the wildlife and all the unexpected surprises you find along the way. I saw a reindeer here wolves and coyotes.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 x 2 inches
Price: $ 360 - available at the show

Morning Canoe Paddle on Stones Lake

Mist rolling in on a fine October morning Morning Canoe Paddle on Stones Lake

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 x 2 inches
Price: $ 360 - available at the show

Muskoka Chair at Stones Lake Deck

Lazy relaxing watching the colours of fall Muskoka Chair at Stones Lake Deck

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 x 2 inches
Price: $ 360 - available at the show

Camp 31 - Triptych

As the sunsets over Clear Lake in Massassauga Provincial Park, we set up camp for a stay in the beauty of the Massassauga Provincial Park, in Ontario

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 34 x 10 x 2 inches
Price: 390

Grace Lake Triptych

Delft Blue like the coffee mug used while canoe tripping on Grace Lake in Killarney Provincial Park

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 12 x 20 x 2 inches
Price: $ 395 - available at the show

Blanket

First Snow - Dorcas Bay - Lake Huron - Tobermory - Ontario The beauty and purity of the first virgin white snow on the shores of windy North Lake Huron it is over the sun emerges from it’s hiding spot high above the angry clouds bathing everything in a warming calm light crusted soft ivory icing smothered deluge pure snow drowning the shores exposed wind swept lake tall pines and cedars struggle bending creaking carrying their weight at their feet a silent blanket carved in mounds and grooves etched evidence to the rage fury of winds that followed after the sky ever burdened emptied itself onto the world below it is over from underneath from inside they emerge basking in the warming peeking light absorbing natures new dress

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 28 x 2
Price: $ 695 - available at the show

Jupiter over Venus and Dorcas Bay

Dorcas Bay, Lake Huron, Tobermory, Ontario At night, while we sleep, before, the dawn breaks, Nature frolics free. She dances. She prances. Far, from prying, glances. This, is how she be.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Spirit in the Sky

Dorcas Bay , Lake Huron on the Bruce Peninsula, Tobermory, Ontario wave after wave the sky storms over Dorcas Bay’s Huron shore embedding it’s mood imprinting impressionable snow sculpting drifts designs of it’s choosing transforming Huron shore wave after wave spirits in the sky hover watch influence directing the characters in the play wave after wave changing Dorcas Bay’s Huron Shore Tobermory stage

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 18 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Eagles Nest - Flat Rock

A Favourite section of the Ottawa River for fishing and sunning. once light, swirling, fleet of foot, the river slowly thickens. coagulating. steadily setting jelly. collecting, piling, against submerged, emerging rock impeded molecules, amass atop the other. locked, frozen into place. icy fingers reach. midas touch. infecting. crystallised created crust. pushing through, past these frozen walls, the river cries, let me through.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 48 x 2 inches
Price: $1300 - available at the show

Hibernate

Cheryl Spotswood's "Red Trail "forest snowshoe trail Hibernate behold, the lump of toads. a knot. they lay silent. beneath the limbs, that held the umbrella, of freshly fallen snow. motionless. they lay silent. beneath the blanket, of freshly fallen snow. motionless. they lay silent. warm, beneath the fallen fall leaves, that lay beneath, the freshly fallen snow. radiating. a pocket of warmth. motionless. silent. waiting. for the spring’s sun. warming. melting. glow.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

The Oracle's Chair

Yellow Trail - Clem Trail - Ottawa River - Westmeath - Ontario They stood silent, while the snow fell, slowly covering where she once sat. Remembering her. Smiling. Sharing. Solutions to questions some asked. Curious to see, who would pass by next, she basked in the glory around her. The memories, the snow, stopped falling, covering all that was once before. Refreshed. The pair moved on.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 20 x 2 inches
Price: $ 360 - available at the show

Scooped

Ottawa River - Whitewater Region Scooped Rock - Inspiration Point - Ottawa River - Whitewater Region.

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 30 x 2
Price: $ 695 - available at the show

The Committee Meeting

Government Road - Foresters Falls - Ottawa White Water River Valley - Ontario The Committee Meeting addressing the group Hank pointed his big fat beak at Oswald and said C’mon lads there is something off about him Sally, Jerry, Mark and Ian looked toward Hank agreeing by their silence Only Mary Only Mary looked back at Oswald head slumped in disappointment Questioning Why?

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 18 x 24 x 2 inches
Price: $480 - available at the show

Look Out

The view looking down river from 2 chair lookout off Fitzgerald Island in the Paquette Channel on The Ottawa River look out they reach out once downy velvet leaf adorned summer soft limbs would gently caress, tickle yield acquiesce passers by now winter hardened razor tipped skin piercing fingers dare you come near look out come see what babbles below our snow capped edge

Materials: oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 30 x 2 inches
Price: $ 695 - available at the show

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