Port Stanley thundercloud
This painting is a typical summertime scene in Port Stanley. Shortly after sunset a thunderhead is building over the lake. 36x36in acrylic on canvas 2010 Private collection of Will Rounds & Anthea Rowe Continue Reading
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Lake Huron shower
A familiar sight from growing up on the shores of Lake Huron. A late summer shower rolls over the gray lake in the afternoon. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 Private collection of Meredith Nelson. Continue Reading
Fading light Lake Huron
The sunsets of Lake Huron are fabled to be the prettiest in the world. Long after the sun has gone, however, just before the darkness falls the sky takes on a calm glow stained pink and orange at the horizon by the last colour of the fading day. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 ... Continue Reading
Lake after the rain
As the clouds clear in the long light as the sun sets, the air is filled with the smell of passing rain over a lake in northern Ontario. 36×36in acrylic on canvas 2010 The painting is available for purchase. Continue Reading
A Lazarus Painting
Like many of my paintings this one has a story. Painted in the summer of 2007, I originally abandoned it to the garbage can. It sat there poking out of the trash for two weeks before one in a series of concerned neighbours finally convinced me to rescue it and rework it into it&# ... Continue Reading
Zavitz / Jindal Commission is on the wall.
Recently I was commissioned by Zavitz Insurance / Jindal Financial to create a mural-sized painting for their corporate headquarters. The painting is a pentaptych which measures 100 inches by 60 inches, and is based on a smaller painting the company purchased from a recent show. ... Continue Reading
A northern vision.
untitled (detail), by nik harron, 2009 I painted this work in 2009 to further explore the themes in “Angry Trees“. It is part of the private collection of Shawn Adamsson, who selected it from all the available works in 2009 as his 40th birthday present. (Happy birthda ... Continue Reading
“trash” in the water.
There is a story associated with this painting. It represents an event that took place late in the summer of 2008 on the shoreline of the Pinery Provincial Park in Southwestern Ontario. As anyone who has visited the shores of Lake Huron knows, the winter storms can wash a substan ... Continue Reading
Port Franks, late afternoon.
untitled (detail), 2008 First of all, I have to say that this painting is one of my favourites. It was painted the day after I spent a wonderful August afternoon floating in the warm, soupy green waters south of Port Franks. I wanted to capture the intense colours of the water an ... Continue Reading