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Prince Edward Island 2010
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  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Pine trees drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 The lighthouse drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 The lighthouse drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 The lighthouse drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 the Lighthouse detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Lighthouse detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Lighthouse detail drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 1 drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 1 drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 1 drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Bird Island detail drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Sunset drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Sunset drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Sunset drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 drawin with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 drawin with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 drawin with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 the Bridge 2 detail drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 clouds from the beach detail drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 Tree on the beach girls in the water detail drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers drawn with crayons
  • Prince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers detail drawn with crayonsPrince Edward Island 2010 passage through the wildflowers detail drawn with crayons
 

Artist Statement

In the summer of 2010 I had an amazing opportunity to spend a week at a cottage in Prince Edward Island. Having packed the usual necessities I grabbed a large sketch pad and a lot of different crayons. This was going to be my third visit to the East Coast with which I have fallen in love from my very first road trip. I still remember being blown away by the colors in the art I saw in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax back in 2002. Ever since then there was a window into color that I have yet had the opportunity to explore.

Throughout the week I went on long walks seeking out interesting locations to capture through my drawings.  Stepping back from my traditional Dodalism work with ballpoint pens I fully immersed myself in color in order to explore a new dimension in my contemporary drawings. Crayons proved to be an excellent medium for spontaneous and energetic drawings capturing the raw beauty of the landscape which surrounded me. They also proved an ideal link in exploring child like approaches to expression which I have explored both in my Dodalism and Grown up Child bodies of work.

The scale of the landscape and the movement in nature were my guiding elements in composing the drawings. Each stoke mimicked the way the grass was being blown by the wind, the way clouds curled into each other.  The limitations of the colors available to me in my various sets of crayons proved to be an asset allowing me for bolder choices in color and less delay in transcribing the continually changing landscape.

Upon my return to Toronto I decided to further explore the possibilities of color and crayons playing a leading role in newly developing themes in my art.