Shoreline Warrior, 2024 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches hot press 140lb paper. 27 x 33.5 inches $750 Framed/Matte/White
Detail - This old spruce grew out of an old growth stump left by the loggers in the depression. The tree has been subjected to many human interactions. This tree is a warrior connecting to the caryatid columns reflecting strength and resilience between nature and humans.
Caryatids of Peter's Woods, 2024 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches hot press 140lb paper. 27 x 33.5 inches $750 Framed/Matte/White
Detail -These northern red oak trees saved me when I was lost and disoriented in the woods. The title connects to the female caryatids columns of the Acropolis. These stunning old growth trees reflect the strength, resilience and support that the ancient columns symbolized.
Dancing Wetland Girl, 2024 Watercol;our and Gouache on Arches 140lb paper. 27 x 33.5 inches $750 Framed/Matte/White
Detail - A maple tree stands on a small piece of land that borders a marsh and river channel on the South Branch of the Muskoka River.This place is very special where there are no cottages, past the Rocky Narrows where you feel the river’s wildness. The tree marks the spot where the frogs sing, beavers build homes, otters and the moose swim. This growth of the limbs striving for light reflects perseverance and resilience of the trees and forest that live in the wetlands of the South Branch of the Muskoka River.
Barkway Swamp, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches hot Press 140lb paper. $750 Framed/Matte/White
Detail -I have driven by this Muskoka swamp for a very long time, admiring, wondering about life and the views everyday at the house on the edge of the swamp. I observe visual stories, and this is a story about connection and communication.
Northern Red Oaks, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on 140 lb Arches paper. 27 33 inches. Framed White/Matte $750
Detail -Northern red oak trees planted to symbolize the promise of peace. To remind of us all who sacraficed their lives for our way of life, they are honoured by the growth and resilience of an old growth species symbolizing the strength and interconnectedness of land, people and culture.
Listen, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 36 x 51 inches $2000 Framed/Matte/White/Artist Glass
Detail -I choose subjects based on my observations in the places and spaces I travel through, constructing compositions from experiential reality. The painting "Listen" reveals a change that has altered the environment, bringing to mind the interconnectedness, trees, and beneath their roots weaving a narrative about a silver birch that grew around a rock, this tree bordered a forest that was decimated by development along the Muskoka River. Two figures emerge, one speaking, one turned bathed in sunlight from the rivers edge listening while underneath a third figure squirms upward symbolizing new life, regrowth encapsulating a positive continuance of nature's relationships..
November Thaw, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 16 x 21 inches $200 Framed/Matte/White
Lady of the Rocky Narrows, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on 140lb Arches paper. 24 x 30 inches. Framed White/Matte $700
Detail, Lady of the Rocky narroes, 2025This maple tree hangs on like a delicate form at the gate of the narrows opening and resides on the rim of the pooled area of water created by the current of the water flowing. It is of particular importance to the flow of the river but developers now own the Rocky Narrows not understanding the fragility and environmental balance of the trees, rocks, creatures and water.
Drifting through 15 x 18 inches. 2024 Watercolour/gouache on Arches hot press 140lb paper. $200 Framed/Matte/Natural
November Freeze on Muskoka River, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 16 x 19 inches $200 Framed/Matte/White
Looking through a crystal ball, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 24 x 30 inches. Framed/White/matte. $700
Detail,Looking through a crystal ball, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. The painting reflects Wendy's connections with Isabel McLaughlin as an artist through life experiences and inspirations.......bringing the inside outside spiritually in a similiar duality of our families histories, legacies that contributed to settling and building Canada. In this composition Wendy has incorporated the back view of Sprinvale/Webster Mansion 1797 with the Palm House Greenhouse. Wendy was inspired by a story from the people that keep Parkwood vibrant that the greenhouse becomes a snow globe. At the end of October 2024 my great grandfather's house was designated an historical site, Webster Falls. Wendy imagines her grandfather running through the backdoor of Springvale as the McLaughlin girls playing in the Greenhouses.
Detail, Through the Looking Glass, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. Wendy focusses on the inside of the Japanese greenhouse where the geraniums winter looking out towards the Italian Garden. The view of Parkwood remided her of the front of her family's Springvale the Webster mansion. She paints a composition of merging the two house architecturally blurring reality like looking through a looking glass.
Watcher, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on 140lb Arches paper. 27 x 33 inches. Framed White/Matte $750
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The Great Pink Snail, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 25 x 31 inches. Framed/White/Matte. $700
Detail,The Great Pink Snail, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. Inspired by a photograph of Isabel McLaughlin and Prudence Heward plein air painting on the grounds of Parkwood. Wendy expresses her thoughts around Isabel McLaughlin's youngest sister Eleanor fondly called by family and friends "Billy". Constructing from history and stories Eleanor most certainly looked up to her older sister Isabel. Wendy imagines their relationship and imaginary play prompted by reading Dr Doolitte which was published in 1920. Eleanor would have been 12, Wendy read this book also at the age of 12.
Muskoka Mornings, 2025 Watercolour, gouache and ink on 100% handmade rag paper with branch. 33 x 43 inches $750
You Came from Me, 2024
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Bridge Portal, 2024 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb paper. $200
Purbrook Bridge, Muskoka, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 21 x 16 inches SOLD
Where the Moose Swim, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 16 x 21 inches SOLD
Detail,n the Willow, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on 140lb rag paper. In this painting Wendy thought about the imaginary play stories and all of Isabel's memories of interacting with her parents, sisters and friends. Wendy considers the imaginary play in the greenhouse as the years went by reflecting on Isabels plein air sketches in the greenhouses.
Fig Tree, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on 140lb rag paper. 17.5 x 21.5 inches. Framed/White/Matte. $ 200
Flora, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on handmade 300lb rag paper. 30 x 39 inches. Framed/White/Matte. $1200 Layaway for Collector
Flora, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on handmade 300lb rag paper. Flora is the Aphrodite/Venus of the greenhouses, Neoclassical marble sculpture of a girl at the cusp of being a woman. Throughout art history the image of the ideal representation of the female form has been painted in every period of art history. The Greek's being the first to represent the perfect super human elevating is to god like perfection. Wendy wanted to create a see through effect building this composition from plein aie study's outside the greenhouse, considering looking from the outside.
Three Graces through Bougainville, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on handmade 300lb rag paper. 30 x 39 inches. Framed/White/Matte. $1200
Detail, Three Graces through Bougainville, 2025 Watercolour/Gouache on handmade 300lb rag paper. the greenhouse was fill of the Bougainville Flower sometime referred to as the paper flower it was named after a French explorer. The texture and colour of the flower provied a glowing magenta warmth. Its cris crossing thorny vines interested Wendy creating a composition of of x marks the spot swirling in colours embracing Giovani's sculpture of the Three Graces. The image holds a sentiment to the McLaughlin family and there love of the Italian Garden.
River Cabins, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb rag paper 33 x 27 inches SOLD
The House that Jack Built, 2024 Watercolour and gouache on handmade paper. 29 x 38 inches $1200 Framed/Matte/White
Forest Reflections, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 27x 37 inches Framed/Matte/White SOLD
Tree Lace, 2024 Watercolour, gouache, ink on Arches 140 lb 37 x 27 inches Framed/Matte/White SOLD
Stairway to Heaven, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 14olb rag paper. 11 x14 inches $75 Framed/Matte/White
The Beckett's Family Cottage, 2025 Watercolour and Gouache on 140lb rag paper. 13x 18 inches Framed/Matte/White SOLD
Last Stand, 2024 Acrylic on wood panel. 8 x 6 inches SOLD Available at MAC on MAIN
Through the Pines, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140 lb rag paper. 27 33.5 inches $750 Framed/Matte/White Autumn Art Tour Special!
Full Steam Ahead! 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 8 x 8 inches SOLD Framed/Matte/White Available at Muskoka Arts and Crafts, MAC on MAIN
Wennonah II, 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 11 x 14 inches SOLD
Electric Avenue! 2025 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb rag paper. 8 x 8 inches SOLD
Sagamo, 1969 Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb paper. 8 x 8 inches. SOLD
End of an Era, 2025 Waterclour, gouache on Arches paper. 8 x 8 inches SOLD
4 Million Dollar Boathouse Watercolour and gouache on Arches 140lb paper. 11 x 14 inches Framed white/matte $75
Japanese Greenhouse Bridge, Study I Aquarelle pencil on rag paper. Unframed 9 x 12 inches $75
Japanese Greenhouse Bridge, Study I Aquarelle pencil on rag paper. Unframed 9 x 12 inches $75