While I was at OCA I studied landscape work with Franklin
Arbuckle. It was with him that I first painted in Algoma. I
fell in love with this part of Ontario immediately. Upon
graduation, I moved into the forests of Algoma at Mile 711/2,
Spruce Lake on the Algoma Central Railway (ACR). There I lived
and painted for the next 13 years.
For the first 7 or 8 years in Algoma I did no studio work. All
of the drawings and paintings were done outside where I studied
the land and its nature in sketch form. I did this to learn to
take on larger cavases. On this page are examples of these
early studies in Algoma.
 Faraway Swamp 37K jpeg |
 The Walking Bridge 25K jpeg |
 Early Morning Fog 29K jpeg |
 Mac's Place 53K jpeg |
 Islands Mine Pond 43K jpeg |
 Red Blueberries 54K jpeg |
 Late Breakup 55K jpeg |
 The Birches 54K jpeg |
Fire, Snow, and Rock 31K jpeg |
 Melting Ice 50K jpeg |
 Spring Heat 63K jpeg |
 Falls in the Morning 56K jpeg |
 Guyatt Lake 36K jpeg |
 The Narrows 59K jpeg |
 Sundown, Spruce Lake 43K jpeg |
 George's Pond 46K jpeg |
Reflection, Atchigan Lake 17K jpeg |
 New Snow 38K jpeg |
 Islands in Freeze Up 37K jpeg |
 Early Breakup (Spruce Lake) 35K jpeg |
 Long Shadows (25K jpeg |
 Fire and Water 28K jpeg |
 First Leaves 41K jpeg |
 Closed Up for Winter 40K jpeg |