Georgian Peaks

24"x48"
Acrylic on Canvas
Loft Gallery

Ski season is upon us!  Here is a painting of one of our local ski hills on the Niagara Escarpment, called the Georgian Peaks Ski Club.

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year.

Late Afternoon Loree Forest

36 x 36 in

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I am excited to announce that I have launched my new website,



www.jenniferwoodburn.com.  Check it out if you have a chance.  For some of you who have been following my blog, you may experience an interrupted feed, as I switched my blog address to www.jenniferwoodburn.blogspot.com from the above address. You may need to sign up to follow my blog again to get regular updates.  I hope that helps.

I used Foliosnap to create and host my website.  After doing a lot of research, I found they had the best layout, design features, ease of use and price point on the market for what I was looking for.  So far, I am very happy with the product. 

   

Early Snow

36"x60"
Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

You may have noticed, that I have a love of vibrant colour.  That's what drives me to paint.  I just LOVE colours.  I often decide on a colour palette before I even choose the subject matter. 

So now I am painting winter scenes.  The skiers and boarders are arriving in our area, and that's what people like to see in the galleries.  I can't blame them - I'm all over everything winter right now.  So how do I incorporate colour into winter scenes?  Well, that's just the quandry I face. I can always ease off on the colour, go with more subtle ones, more greys etc.  - but I don't want to!  I guess I will just have to see what I come up with over the coming months...who says snow has to be white?

Winter Stream

36" x 48"


Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Winter is Here

24"x36"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I am starting to get in the winter/ Christmas mood. We had some lovely snowfall yesterday, and hopefully the ski hills will be open soon! Just need a little more of the white stuff and some cooler temperatures...

Little Stream

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Fall Again

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Today's cool artist that you should check out is Sheila Kernan. I love both her city street scenes as well as her landscapes. It would be great to be a fly on the wall in her studio, just to see how she does it! Sounds like she uses, acrylic, oil and an air spray gun...fascinating. Looking at her work gets me in the mood to explore some new techniques.

Metcalfe in Fall

30" x 40"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

This is a painting that I donated to a fundraiser for my son's school. The Sugar Plum Fair, as it is called, has a silent auction as well as many other holiday related activities. As I was also on the organizing committee for this event, I am happy to say the sales were a success, and lots of funds were raised. Now I can stop organizing, and go back to painting!! Thanks to Emma McCurdy for buying the painting. I hope you enjoy it.

On the Hillside

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

A Measure of Time

30" x 48"

Acrylic on Canvas

Loft Gallery

Silent Reverie

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

It was a successful show opening last night. Lots of beautiful art to check out. I even took home a piece myself, a stunning painting by Peter John Reid, one of my favourite local artists.

Peter has also recently written a book "How To Paint With Acrylics". It provides some really interesting information for acrylic painters. I have read many acrylic paintings books in the past, but found a variety of new insights in this book. Peter sells them directly, if you are interested, check out his link.

Sunset on the Bay

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Georgian Bay has some of the most amazing sunsets. We have front row seats at our cottage in Victoria Harbour.

Only two more days until the Square Foot Show!

Frozen Stream

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Square Foot Show opens this Friday, Nov 20 at the Loft Gallery in Clarksburg.

Along the Way

24" x 20"

Acrylic on Canvas

Feeling Blue

12" x 12"
Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Winter painting begins...

So Many Pieces

36" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I just finished reading Inside the Painters Studio by Joe Fig. Wow! What an unbelievable peek inside the studios of some of the most interesting contemporary artists working today (missing a few Canadian artists however...). If you like to learn about other artists' working methods, tools and paints used, studio set up, and a look into the day to day life of other artists, then this is the book for you. I devoured it and will be reading it all over again soon.

Where the Path Takes You

12" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I am working on a bunch of 12" babies for the upcoming By The Square Foot Show at the Loft Gallery. I can't believe how freeing this feels after painting a number of large works. Fun!

Been Around for a Long Time

24" x 24"

Acrylic on Canvas
SOLD

I painted this a couple of weeks back, while at the studio tour in front of a "live" audience. Since I'm not entirely comfortable painting in front of others (I'm getting there though), I decided to stick with "comfort material". So I painted my favourite barn.

Escarpment Fall

36" x 36"

Acrylic on Canvas

Metcalfe Turning

30" x 36"
Acrylic on Canvas

Loft Gallery

Christie Beach

16" x 16"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

This was painted on location. It was a beautiful Fall day out at Christie Beach on Georgian Bay. My girlfriend Deirdre and I had a great day of painting outside, followed by a late lunch at the Thornbury Bakery. Heaven!

The Black Bridge

24" x 24"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

This is one of the many bridges in our area that crosses the Beaver River. I have been wanting to paint the Black Bridge for a while now, as I pass over it most days.

Salmon and trout come up this river to their spawning grounds in the fall. Right now you can see many large fish (some salmon over two feet long!) fighting the currents to swim to the upper parts of the river. It is an amazing sight to behold.

They All Fall Down

60" x 36"

Acrylic Canvas

SOLD

I had a chance to record a promotional TV spot for Rogers Cable today about the upcoming art tour. Nerve wracking, but fun all at the same time! If you are in the Thornbury-Clarksburg area this weekend, I will be painting on site at Interior Motives. My work will be shown at both Interior Motives as well as the Loft Gallery. It should be fun!

Last Leaves

48" x 48" diptych

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Autumn Whispers

36" x 36"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

The Autumn Colours Art Show at the Loft Gallery in Clarksburg begins this Saturday. I just dropped off a number of paintings for the show, including this one.

Among the Rocks

48"x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

This is one of my favourite pieces painted to date, and the largest! I have to admit, I am getting very used to painting big now. When I approach the smaller canvases, it starts to feel very constricting! Maybe I am over compensating (I am 5'1" tall, or should I say short...) - you would have laughed to see me painting on my step stool yesterday.

Metcalfe Mosaic

48" x 36"

Acrylic on canvas

SOLD

The Forest Glows

48 in x 36 in
Acrylic on canvas

Loft Gallery

Play of Shadows

36" x 36"

Acrylic on Canvas

Loft Gallery

Where It All Leads

24"x 20"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Fall Splendor

30 in x 24 in

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD


As I am preparing for the Fall Studio Tour of the Arts, you will be seeing a lot of fall colours in the coming weeks!

Reaching Up

48"x 36"
Acrylic on Canvas
SOLD

Where Rock and Forest Join

36" x 60"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Metcalfe Morning

36" x 60" acrylic on canvas

SOLD

I am on a Metcalfe roll...it ain't over yet.

South of Heathcote

20" x 20"
Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

My husband Mark rides past this barn on his road bike all of the time. He photographed it for me in the spring so that I could paint it.

The Rectory

20" x 20" acrylic on canvas

NFS

Painted this one during a plein air workshop I was in earlier this summer with John David Anderson. A great old house with a marvelous willow tree out front.

Georgian Bay Storm

24" x 48"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Georgian Bay creates some marvelous storms, with such interesting skies.

Towards the End

36"x60" acrylic on canvas

SOLD

Old Baldy

30"x40"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Here is another painting for this weekend's show at the Loft Gallery.

View From Old Baldy

36" x 48"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD



Here is another painting of mine for the upcoming Loft Gallery show. There is a great viewpoint of the Beaver Valley from a, outcropping of the escarpment called "Old Baldy." It is a view I would never tire from looking at, out over the town of Kimberley and Talisman Resort.

Metcalfe Rocks

36"x36" acrylic on canvas

SOLD

This is the first of five paintings that I have in the Loft Gallery's Bruce Trail/Escarpment Show, opening July 18th. The painting is of Metcalfe Rock, part of the Niagara Escarpment. It is a great local trail hiking area, with some wicked rock climbing and caving.

Red Barn and the Escarpment

24"x48"
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD

I had painted this one for the upcoming Bruce Trail and Escarpment show at the Loft Gallery. However, it won't be leaving our house as my husband has claimed this one. Poor guy, all his favourite paintings seem to head out the door... So this one stays (for now!).

Clarksburg Corner

24" x 24"

Acrylic on Canvas

Loft Gallery
SOLD

The Best House of All

11" x 14" acrylic on canvas
nfs

I painted this one the other week during a plein air painting course I was taking. We were located at an amazing local property called Carpe Diem. The owner specializes in perennial gardens, and her flowers were unbelieveable. I was also enamoured by her cute little bird houses, and the rhythm of the trees bordering her property.

White House

18" x 24" acrylic on canvas

Here is another one of these cute little old houses in our town. I was intrigued by the shadows cast on the side of the house and the lawn.

Layered Birches II

24" x 36"

Acrylic on Canvas

Loft Gallery

More birches...

Birch Forest

30" x 40" acrylic on canvas

available at the Loft Gallery

Back again. Had some camera issues, but all is resolved now. I have lots to post. Here it comes!

Apple Farm

24" x 24" acrylic on canvas

Loft Gallery

I live in apple country. This painting is based on a farm that is located just down the road from our house (one of the many). When the apple blossoms are out in the spring, it is just heaven!

Alive

36" x 36"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I promise that I have been painting a lot, just not posting! I will get caught up in the coming week.

Spring Storm

18" x 36" acrylic on canvas

SOLD

This is my final painting completed for the Art Tour this weekend. As I said before, my work will be shown at Interior Motives in Thornbury and the Loft Gallery in Clarksburg.
Now I have to get back to painting as we have a quite few empty walls to fill in our house!