Driving about an hour north of Shawinigan brings you to the Hotel Marineau Mattawain which is in the hamlet of Rivière-Matawin. Try saying that five times fast in both official languages. The river is a huge, powerful force of nature that has been used for hydro electric power for over a century, and for a logging route. Sitting next to it you can hear the swoosh of the water and feel the cool mist in the air. This scene was a view from the back of the hotel, I was sitting on a large boulder surrounded by blueberries and deer droppings, when a light rain began to fall. I had to retreat to under a shrub in the most uncomfortable position to complete the painting. I tried to channel the spirit of Vincent (Van gogh), giving each element of the composition its own personality, and adding the decorative swirls in the river water to give that plunging perspective and sense of movement that he so often used in his oil paintings. I also made my signature look like it is floating away on top of the river!
water (for real) colour, 7 x 10 hot press (block) August 2019
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