Urban Beaver
I live in Vancouver near the Olympic Village, 7 blocks from the salt water of False Creek and a man made fresh water course in Hinge Park. I have been watching beavers there for a couple of years. There are dens at Hinge Park, Stanley Park and Vanier Park in Vancouver. The closeness of the West End condo towers suggests the absurdity of beavers living in Vancouver’s down-town.
A dens is a peaked pile of logs and mud in a conical or lean-to shape. It is easy to miss if you have never seen a den. In May the beavers have their babies and stay inside the den for a month. The babies will leave the den in June.
The Kitsalano beaver den is conical shaped
Swimming beaver
Kitsalano beaver
Beaver den Lost Lagoon
The beaver den in Hinge Park is a lean-to against a hillside
Beaver den at Beaver Lake, Stanley Park
Culvert blocked by beaver and their den in Stanley Park
May 14, 2019
Maple, 8″x 8.75″ acrylic on board sketch of a maple tree in Vanier Park, Vancouver
Maple , 24.5 x 28″ acrylic on board painting
April 4, 2018This is a 5.7″ x 9 ” acrylic sketch of Semifor Lake.This was a base camp for a climb of Face Mountain which is the highest peak in the backround.
This is the 28″x 44″ acrylic on board painting from that sketch
October 23, 2016
March 9, 2016
This is a 6″ X 9″ sketch of a snow melt pool on Face Mountain. Face Mountain is north of Pemberton, British Columbia .
Here is the finished 28″ x 44″ acrylic on board painting Still Pool.These are acrylic paintings (44″ x 28″) I painted in 1988. I was trying to be very in between.
Glass
I tried to make something that was a landscape and a still life, painting and photograph, that may or may not have a narrative, be flat and have depth, be of many parts and of a single whole. The unresolved tensions create an uncertainty that is like the moment of awareness. As we pass through thresholds we become aware of the differences and similarities of the two states.
Crystal
Abalone
January 5, 2015