Barbara-Jean Lovell - Always With Me - Acrylic on gallery mounted panel

I began painting & drawing at a young age in my hometown of Collingwood, Ontario. Growing up in a small Canadian town provided the freedom to run with wild abandon through apple orchards, farm fields & streams with childhood friends & neighbours. These adventures shaped my love of open landscape while the waves of Georgian Bay lapped at the shoreline of the area. Summers were spent beachside & winters were spent hillside skiing down the slopes of Blue Mountain. The area was a one stoplight town when I was a kid & at the time I had no idea that the love of this lush backdrop would provide an intense appreciation for playful shape & colour in the ever changing windswept seasons. The appreciation continues to be captured in my work as an artist.
Today I've settled once again in a charming small town with waves lapping this time from Lake Huron. I work from my hometown studio in Kincardine, Ontario & this place captures so much of the magic of my childhood

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Acrylic on gallery mounted panel