The wildflowers in summer are a joyous affirmation that beauty can survive in the face of adversity.
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Alive or dead, they make fascinating shapes against the sky. “The worn and twisted trees are sculpted by the wind. “There are also the weathered trees and shrubs that cling to the rocks at the top of the shore,” she says. That was the most extreme surf I have painted en plein air.” Point Prim, Photo: Poppy BalserĪs Balser will attest, there’s so much more to Point Prim than variable winds and seas and dramatic boulders. “I painted this tucked out of the considerable wind behind some shrubs.
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Some days, the water is right up close to the top of the rocks, other days it’s way down.” Point Prim, Photo: Poppy Balser Poppy Balser, “Point Prim, October 26,” 2015, watercolor on paper, 7 x 11 inches. Often enough, I can find a place that is out of the wind to sketch for a while. Some days, I just go to study the waves and the sky when the wind is too much to let me paint. There can be quiet ripples lapping at the rocks or huge waves battering the cliffs. “Depending on the direction of the wind and the colors in the sky, the water can range from a deep blue green to a silver-gray. “The blocky basalt cliffs are mostly black when wet, but they reflect light from the sky and the water - I love painting that,” Balser continues. That was 2007.” Point Prim, Photo: Poppy Balser Point Prim, Photo: Poppy BalserĪs any painter knows, even slight changes in weather and tides can spark dramatic changes in a scene, especially along shorelines. A collector commissioned a painting of it. It was the lighthouse that brought me there the first time. “From the lighthouse on a clear day I can see New Brunswick, some 47 miles away, across the Bay of Fundy.
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“It takes me just minutes to get there, and the view is always different,” Balser affirms. It’s at Point Prim that Balser encounters a new scene each time she visits, an element that keeps her creative senses piqued. The lighthouse at Point Prim Point Prim, Photo: Poppy Balser Poppy Balser, “November Seascape,” 2016, watercolor on paper, 11 x 15 inches She’s had a lot of experience because her favorite place to paint is located just over six miles from her home in Digby, Nova Scotia, at Point Prim. Discover why here.Īlthough Poppy Balser is extremely proficient in painting a diverse range of subjects, those familiar with her work know that she’s especially skilled at capturing rocky shorelines and dramatic waves. For accomplished outdoor painter Poppy Balser, there will always be a special place in her heart for Point Prim. Lighthouses are such wonderful subjects, aren’t they? They project into the sky with brilliant designs from sandy and rocky shores and are beacons of hope for weary sailors.