Roberts Art Gallery

This beautiful cape style boat belongs to a very good friend of mine. It is a working lobster fishing boat called "The Emma and Boys" They fish out of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia. This acrylic painting is in the collection of the owner of the boat. I painted The Emma and Boys one Christmas from a photograph the Captain's wife sent me. It's truly a great boat . I like to work from photographs and sketches, I'm not really into the whole outdoor painting on location thing. I work far to slow for that I fear.... This tugboat operates out of Halifax Harbour . I see it everyday on my way to work. This is a colored pencil picture worked on over a period of time from a photo. Colored pencils produce lovely vibrant colors, but alas the requirement to frame the finished picture under glass makes framing a costly endeavor. Unfortunately the camera flash produced some shine on this particular photo that is not there when the painting is viewed in 'person'

This painting was sold at a benefit auction about a year ago. Unfortunately I did not get the name of the new owner, and therefore one of my 'babies' has slipped from my fold. Parting with a painting, whether for money or for a good cause, is still a painful experience . It is a creation, and a loss of creation, almost like the loss of a loved one is hard to forget. For me, selling a painting creates that sense of loss and I have to convince myself to let go. The above picture is from a scene I noticed at Lake Charlotte on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. It is one of many rocky points and coves, tree lined shores and dark waters. This picture is based on the early spring when the ice starts to slowly break up around the edges of the shoreline and the water peeps through, giving promise of things to come.

These paintings are visions of places that exist on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. I would be specific and tell you exactly where, but I think it best left unsaid. So much of the the woods and waters of the area look similar that these could be many places. If they stir a memory in you, I am most humbled. This next one adorns the wall of a good friend of mine, and I can only hope he enjoys it always.

Hello, and welcome to my art gallery. Here you will find various paintings and drawings I have done over the years. There will be still life, landscape and even a few figurative paintings shown here. Although not actively selling my pictures, I do appreciate being able to put them 'out there' for people to see and hopefully enjoy. This first one is an acrylic painting of an old logging camp, which turned into a fishing camp, and has since been torn down and replaced by a new building. I find it sad to see the old places go, disappearing from the landscape, leaving no trace of the lives lived there. Fishing camps of the 40's and 50's and before, held many happy memories for men who spent their vacations fishing for trout and salmon. They were rough and tough places, nothing like the accomodations people expect of fishing lodges these days. The place in this next picture exists only in my minds eye. Sometimes when the world is getting me down, and I feel like a