My next show, "WAVES and WAKES", is scheduled to run from Sat 12th April until Sat 10th May at the Katharine House Gallery, in The Parade, MARLBOROUGH, Wiltshire, SN8 1NE. For further information, ring The Gallery, which is open Tue-Sat, on 01672-514040.

Fall in Garibaldi Lake

Size: 1.83m x 1.53m  Status: Collection of the Artist  Medium: Oils and copal varnishes on canvas  

November 1980 to January 1981 in Vancouver, Canada  Exhibited: 5, 6, 11 

Briefly, before the first winter snows arrive, bright orange deciduous scrub-vegetation (dwarf maples, etc.) vividly enhance the colours in an Alpine 'West Coast Canadian' forest wilderness some 5000ft (1,523m) up in the British Columbian Mountains. For good reason, the area is designated a 'Provincial Park', since here above the haze layer, in clearer air the colours seem intensified in sunshine appearing brighter than at lower levels, and the sky takes on a deeper shade of blue.

Garibaldi Lake is glacier-fed and crystal clear, yet the photographed water reflections on the surface interacting with rock-shapes beneath seem to form imaginary creatures; an angry hummingbird, a blue greyhound and an ancient warrior emerge from the shallows. Perhaps a totem pole belonging to a long-disappeared Indian settlement fell into the water