Cognashene And Go Home Bay, 2014, oil on linen, 60 x 66 inches
Cognashene And Go Home Bay
At the horizon and on the left you are looking at Christian, Hope and
Beckwith Islands and at Giants Tomb. On the right horizon is the South
Pine Island. Below the Tomb is the northern end of Beausoleil Island and
below that is Honey Harbour. The southern side of Go Home Bay occupies
the right side of the composition. Six of the original members of the
Group of Seven form a triangular stack of heads on the right side of the
canvas. Although Carmichael and Harris are not known for their paintings
of this area, Jackson, Lismer, MacDonald and Varley painted some of
their most iconic paintings on this landscape. The seventh member, Frank
Johnston floats off across the horizon to start living in nearby
Wyebridge where he was soon to leave the group. Above the group and
above his home in Leith, Ontario is David Milne. In the late thirties
Milne lived and worked in a small tarpaper cabin on Six Mile Lake, just
inland from Cognashene. I have always thought of the smooth rocky
landscape of eastern Georgian Bay as female in nature, so I have turned
many of the islands and points of land into female figures.
Cognashene And Go Home Bay
At the horizon and on the left you are looking at Christian, Hope and Beckwith Islands and at Giants Tomb. On the right horizon is the South Pine Island. Below the Tomb is the northern end of Beausoleil Island and below that is Honey Harbour. The southern side of Go Home Bay occupies the right side of the composition. Six of the original members of the Group of Seven form a triangular stack of heads on the right side of the canvas. Although Carmichael and Harris are not known for their paintings of this area, Jackson, Lismer, MacDonald and Varley painted some of their most iconic paintings on this landscape. The seventh member, Frank Johnston floats off across the horizon to start living in nearby Wyebridge where he was soon to leave the group. Above the group and above his home in Leith, Ontario is David Milne. In the late thirties Milne lived and worked in a small tarpaper cabin on Six Mile Lake, just inland from Cognashene. I have always thought of the smooth rocky landscape of eastern Georgian Bay as female in nature, so I have turned many of the islands and points of land into female figures.