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Water Images

4/17/2016

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PictureThis is a print I made about 15 years ago. She's not being ruffled by the water. She's lying on a rock, almost in the water. I think it's based on the sense of all the wonderful hours of my life I've spent lying in or near water.
I was driving along Highway 2 into my hometown of Brockville last Friday night. I was looking at the river and realized the enormous influence it has had on my imagination. Water appears in many, many of my images.

I saw water from my bedroom window, also simply walking around the town, and from boats such as canoes, rowboats, sailboats and the ferry crossing the river.

PictureThis is a monoprint. The boat is just a twig. The image shows the uncertainty of coming out from behind shelter into a rougher water.
When I was born I was brought back to a place within a few yards of the river. I've lived near water ever since then: during the summer at cottages, around the lakes of eastern Ontario, in Toronto where I live now along Lake Ontario.

I'm sure if I had grown up on the Prairies, that would always be reflected in any of my work, instead of the water, which is now so important in my work.

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Brigitte Nowak link
4/17/2016 08:52:13 pm

Thank you for sharing. Like you, water has had a strong influence on my work; I paint canoes, often for an excuse to paint water. it continues to fascinate me, in all of its diversity. The colour of water changes with the season. This past weekend, heading up to the cottage for the first time this year (we are on an island), the lakes i saw beside the highways reflected a colour that was very nearly purple. The spring runoff from the island created a tea coloured tinge to the water near the shore.

All the best, Noreen.

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Ann Bald-Bloom link
4/18/2016 08:17:41 pm

wonderful to know your connection to the water. it makes so much sense. thanks Noreen for this blog. I'm enjoy it a lot. ox A

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