Galiano
-Barbara Boldt
The sandstone paintings are part of my "EARTH PATTERN" series. they depict the rock and sandstone formations of the coast and also of the Badlands in Alberta. this series of paintings is very important to me, as consider the works my signature pieces.
Every time I go back to Galiano I go to Montague Bay which lies on the south-east shore of the island, in a bay across from Parker Island in the Trincomali channel. It's a wonderful beach to walk along at low tide, with many arbutus trees along the cliffs, and wonder upon wonder to be seen in
the unbelievable sandstone erosion patterns.
Robinson Jeffers, who was a compratriot of the photographer Ansel Adams,wrote prose and poetry about the California coast. this is one of his poems that touched and inspired me:
It is only a little planet
but how beautiful it is.
Waters that own the North and West and South,
And is all colours and never is all quiet,
And the fogs are its breath....
All the companies of windy grasses......
Pure naked rock....
.... A lonely clearing,
LOVE THAT, NOT MAN APART FROM THAT......
