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  Night Life, acrylic on canvas, 30″x48″, Private Collection of the Artist

  Who needs the “bright lights” of the city?

  We find ourselves mesmerized by the owl and his nighttime flight.

  Colour and texture fill the painting!
  The hills that cut across the background are alight with bold colours.
  The “evergreens” add depth as they are seen below,
  and their reds along with the golden forest floor add to the vibrancy of the nighttime scene.

  Horizontal lines of deep blues within the sky and water alternate with the reds, framing the scene.
  The birch and pine trees cut through the horizontal sections in both their vertical direction and their turquoise tones.

  The barred owl seems illuminated as its natural colours pop against the background.
  It’s on the right side of the canvas but looking to fly left across the scene,
  inviting the viewer to join the owl’s flight path through the forest.

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  The Perfect Day (aka “Shauna’s Visit”) acrylic on canvas, 30”x40” $1600 unframed

  $1,600.00

  For enquiries, please contact Dawn
  dmcartoriginals@gmail.com
  647-233-3848

  Imagine a perfect day, when you, those you love, and all of nature seem aligned- when magic becomes real. This painting represents one such day. It is named for a dear friend, Shauna, whose gentle presence seems to invite the trust of the wild. During her cottage visit, we experienced an unprecedented abundance of wildlife sightings, culminating as a majestic buck swam directly toward us while we sat contentedly on the dock.

  In The Perfect Day, the swimming buck serves as the focal point, embodying that unforgettable encounter. To convey the thriving lifecycle of the lake, a multitude of fish are shown manoeuvring seamlessly past the buck’s pumping legs. The animals are treated with physical realism, blending into subtle surrealism through the use of shimmering metallic paints that reveal their fully submerged bodies below the water line.

  Set against a pulsing mosaic sky and patterned, rolling hills, the composition utilizes a bold, graphic rhythm to transform a personal memory into a timeless celebration of natural connection.

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  Going With the Floe- acrylic on canvas, 20×40, $1800

  Solo Exhibition at Galerie LaFab Oct 17 – Dec 6, 2026   https://lafabsurmill.ca/visual-arts/gallery/

  In Going with the Floe, I used an expansive panoramic canvas to capture the immense scale of the High Arctic marine wilderness. The foreground is anchored by the massive flukes of a bowhead whale diving into a vibrant blue ocean, streams of turquoise water cascading from its tail. In the upper right background, I painted a tiny row of red canvas tents sitting quietly on the landfast ice - a direct nod to my personal experience living on the sea ice off Baffin Island. Rather than presenting humans as conquerors of the landscape, my goal was to highlight our fragile, minor presence within an ecosystem ruled by ancient marine giants.

  To give the deep sea an energetic, colourful vitality, I built the ocean from a dense tapestry of pointillist dots and mosaic chunks of floating ice. By positioning our small human footprint against the endless blue peaks of the northern coastline, the composition emphasizes our quiet place within Earth's grandest sanctuaries and the natural scale that governs this landscape.

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  Snowy Pursuit, acrylic on canvas, 36″x36″, $2000

  Solo Exhibition at Galerie LaFab Oct 17 – Dec 6, 2026   https://lafabsurmill.ca/visual-arts/gallery/

  In Snowy Pursuit, I wanted to map the high-stakes drama of the Arctic skies by exploring the concepts of presence and absence. This square canvas captures a snowy owl in full mid-flight, its sweeping, intricate barred wings extending across the frame as its intense yellow eyes lock onto a trail below. Across the frozen landscape, a clear path of Arctic hare tracks charts a frantic escape over the sea ice. Rather than documenting a simple chase, this scene draws a direct parallel to the exhibition’s core theme: tracing the subtle footsteps left behind by northern life.

  To elevate this pursuit into a statement on presence, I chose to make the landscape itself vibrate with a pulsing energy. I built the expansive sea ice from a meticulous grid of white mosaic tiles, providing a stark, high-contrast backdrop that forces the eye to track those small, detailed blue prints. By framing this aerial vantage point against a jagged mountain range and a sky filled with a dense, colourful field of turquoise and lilac tiles, my goal is to invite you to follow the literal tracks of survival - and contemplate the weight of our own delicate footprint on this frozen sanctuary.

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