A change of heart

Hello faithful bloggers , you have seen me and have been with me on my painting journies . I've travelled and painted ¨plein air ¨ now for the last twenty years or so . Painting landscapes for me was a passion . I travelled the province for subjects to paint  . But now , I have reached a certain point in my life where I do not feel that passion anymore . There is no joy in painting anymore . I've decided to try something new . I changed my way of painting completly . I am now working in abstract painting . I love it . It was hard for me at first but now I find it fascinating . I can let go and concentrating on painting and not bother with the subjet , the composition , the harmony . Well I still have to worry about the harmony and the basic feel for the painting but it's more in the overall aspect of it . I do not say that I will never return to realistic painting but for now , I am content with what I am doing . I thank you for your support and I will put a link of my new blog on my home page .Thank you .

Standing tall - Tylee Marsh

More paintings

paintings from the Place de la Culture exhibition

Exhibit at Boisbriand's Place de la Culture

Publishing the book ¨La Rivière-des-Mille-iles et ses rives ¨

I've started this collection of paintings , like I said , about three years ago. My goal was mainly to build a collection so that I could exhibit my work . I said to myself , what can I do that would be more meaningfull and more of a chalenge .I said , what if I write a book . Starting from the paintings I did , I added photographes and wrote about sixty pages in all . There is alot of work for me to do in order to make this book readable but I'm quite satisfied with the results.I'M happy because this exhibit will help me promote my futur book and maybe get the support I need and get the municipalites involved in this project .

Exhibition at the ¨Place de la Culture ¨ in Boisbriand

I'm exhibiting my paintings I've done and accumulated for about three years now but never reveilled to the public.These are paintings of the rivière-des-Mille-Iles in the lower laurentians .The exhibit will be on all the mounth of June starting June le second 'till the 30th of June .The vernissage will be held on the 3rd of June for 5 to 7 o'clock .Everybody is welcomed .

Laurentian splendor

It's been quite windy outside for the last several days now and
that made it almost impossible to paint . I remembered having
sketched a few interesting scenes while I was walking along the
trails earlier , here in the Bellerivière area . About trenty minutes
from home . So I decided to paint a little 9 x 12" oil painting
from a sketch I had .

Exhibition at the ¨ Maison Trestler ¨

I have been invited to exhibit my paintings in this historical house
(Maison Trestler ) here in Vaudreuil , Québec . There are a few rooms
that have been converted in art galleries . It is an old but very charming
house that you can visit and see how people
lived in the early days .

My exhibition runs from march the 7th till the 4th of april .
It is a small solo exhibit where you can see twenty paintings in all .

The old canoe shack

In the ¨Parc des Mille-Îles ¨, there is an old shack where the parc

stores canoes and kayaks . They rent these canoes during the

summer time and the shack it is located next to the Rivière des

Mille-Îles , here in Ste-Rose, Quebec .

Snowshoeing in Parc du Domaine Vert

Parc du domaine Vert Outing

I decided to go paint at the ¨Parc du Domaine Vert ¨in Mirabel
,Qc today . It is about 12 kilometers from my home and today
was a chilling -10 c but a beautiful day . I tried for the first time
a new pair of snowshoes I just bought recently . I'ts not easy to
put them on especially with my packsack on my back .Nonethe-
less I was very happy with my painting even though it was a
difficult condition to paint . There are several trails to walk on
and you can also ski . I took several photos of my painting and I
will put them all on this blog .

Maison Dubois 9 x 12 " Oil on board

This is the old historic Maison Dubois house that I painted
a few weeks ago . I liked the old barn behind the trees . I
did a second painting of this barn but from another angle .

recent paintings

Here are a few paintings I've did this week . they were

all painted from a walking distance from my home . The

reason being that I had a problem with my car and they

had to tow it to the garage . It was too old to repare it so

I sent it to the scrap yard . So now , I'm without a car but

in a way I'll get to walk more often and stay in shape .

Champlain lookout painting oil 16 x 20 "

A 14 x 18 " Oil painting done in Gatineau Park.

Some more pics from Gatineau Park