Grand Lake Meadows - bone china mug

19 July 2014 found me standing in the back of a pickup truck on the causeway through the Grand Lake Meadows near Jemseg, New Brunswick, taking photos for this painting of my favorite scene, at my favorite time of day. I'd been craning my neck at this spot, every time we've driven the causeway - several times during last year's Bio-blitz, and even more in this final year of the New Brunswick Museum's survey of Grand Lake Meadows Protected Natural Area. As "Artist in Residence" for the survey, I had a mandate to paint this classic view of the marsh along the Saint John River, and it is very satisfying to accomplish! I love the bright strip of shining water glinting through the line of Soft Maples, and the solid forested shape of the distant headland, across the variegated greens of the wet meadow, slightly streaked by its network of wandering creeks.