Watercolors
Phillipa Hudson - Watercolor artist.
For many years I have painted mostly in watercolors. Gradually, my choice of subject has begun to focus more and more on the high country, where the seasons are intense, the light magical, and the challenge to a watercolourist considerable.
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15x22 inches. Over Easter 2004 I flew into the Pebble Galcier area with a group of friends, to ski and camp for a number of days. As it turned out, we had perfect weather (rare in the Coast Range in April!), and this is one of a number of paintings that resulted from that fun-filled back country time.
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7x11 inches. Mt Baker from the NE..
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15x22 inches. On the Wapta Icefields.
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15x22 inches. Further travels on the Pebble Galcier. The early morning light can change the world, especially the world of snow and ice, so quickly from dark, to gray-purple, and then suddenly blindingly white. This painting attempts to capture that dawn transition on the summits near our camp, as the night disappears and the sun floods the slopes with color.
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15x22 inches. The West Coast of Greenland was another remote and utterly beautiful place that was full of light and contrast, even if the colors were often muted. This painting recalls a moment just before sunrise (at 3 am, high above the Arctic Circle) when rays of light are spilling over the saddle in the background, onto the glacier we were crossing, when the mountains were backlit and almost glowing.
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| 15x22 inches. On the Wapta Icefields, a favourite area for backcountry skiers in the Canadian Rockies, in Banff National Park. On the left is Rhonda Peak, and the Peyto Glacier disappears over a col and out of sight down to Peyto Lake below.
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