#2323 "Windswept Rocky Shore"

Every painting needs a rhyme and a rhythm. I like how those words go together as well. The words use the same letters but mean very different things. Language can be interesting and stimulating. In any event there are at least 4 thousand rocks above the surface of the waters of the Parry Sound Archipelago according to Staff Commander John G. Boulton of the Royal Navy who surveyed the area in 1891. The spacing of these pieces of granite may look irregular but from a distance there must be a pattern. The same phenomena happens in the atmosphere. There is a wavelength in every fluid whether it be the weather, the atmosphere or molten rock. The winds certainly erode the rocks and weathers the trees but the regular wave patterns in these rocky swirls are cast in stone - so to speak.

In addition, the patterns in the rock reminded me of my late artist friend Ed Bartram. Ed lived in King City near where we lived in Schomberg and later at Watershed Farm on the 12th Conccesion of King Township. This painting is my small remembrance of an artist who shared in the joy of the Georgian Bay rocks and the archipelago. The rocky swirls gave the painting both a rhyme and a rhythm. Ed gave me an autographed copy of his book, Rockscapes. I gave Ed a copy of my Weather of Ontario. We are all in this together.

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