Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.

36x30"

The Wind is Storming up the Bluffs is my visual interpretation of a poem - see at the end of this description.
This assemblage contains 20 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were painted on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish. For this piece the strips were cut to a length so that they were surrounded by an area of white and I offset the strips to heighten the energy in the painting.

Woman Walking with Dogs
by Linda Goulais

the grey morn of another day
in a warmly lit tea room
on a rough English coast.
Outside in the bleak,
past the tea cups
and the smeared glass,
a woman is walking
along the edge under a dark sky
grey dogs all around her.

The wind is storming up the bluffs
from the sea,
a low whelping howl,
and the wind is everything.
She leans into it
says a prayer perhaps.
Her hair is wild
tentacled, salt-flaked, alive.
She is, in the sea-smudged light,
both improbable and astonishing.

The dogs, all legs and flattened fur
circle close, move off
circle close again
protecting her, or at least
re-affirming each other —
the huddled mass
in the unforgiving wind
drifting slowly down the bluff
to the point.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

12x12"

This assemblage contains 11 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This piece is one of 4 that were made in memory of a dear friend's very special horse. There are only 4 pieces that I made from the 6 paintings in this family. The strips are of differing lengths and are off-set from each other to give the piece more energy, more freedom.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

12x12"

This assemblage is composed of 9 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family. They reminded me of fantastical summertime marshlands filled with magic.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

12x12"

This assemblage contains 11 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour collection is wild and bold and makes me think of dancing and the freedom one feels while dancing. It was with this colour family that I created my first triptych consisting of three 20x30 panels, which sold this spring.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

12x12"

This assemblage contains 10 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour family makes me think of a fanciful trip into outer space.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

18x12"

This assemblage is composed of 12 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

24x24"

This assemblage is composed of 16 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.

20x36"

This assemblage contains 81 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
The colours chosen for those original 5 paintings were inspired by a 9 day canoe trip I took last summer down the French River and into Georgian Bay. The water, the sky, the flowers that were blooming, the trees and the rocks - that is what I was thinking about when I chose the colours for these paintings and while I was painting the 5 large pieces that I then cut into strips to create this collection.
This piece is actually a triptych consisting of three 6x36 panels, but I mounted them to a backboard to make it easier to hang - trying to keep three 6x36 panels straight would have been frustrating!

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

14x14"

This assemblage contains 10 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour family makes me think of a fanciful trip into outer space.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

18x18"

This assemblage contains 14 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour collection is wild and bold and makes me think of dancing and the freedom one feels while dancing. It was with this colour family that I created my first triptych consisting of three 20x30 panels, which sold this spring.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.

24x18"

This assemblage contains 17 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
The colours chosen for those original 5 paintings were inspired by a 9 day canoe trip I took last summer down the French River and into Georgian Bay. The water, the sky, the flowers that were blooming, the trees and the rocks - that is what I was thinking about when I chose the colours for these paintings and while I was painting the 5 large pieces that I then cut into strips to create this collection.

Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.

24x24"

Spring in Mermaid Marsh is composed of 16 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family. They reminded me of fantastical summertime marshlands filled with magic.