"Eurotium", 2005, oil on canvas, copyright Catherine Beaudette
It hasn’t stopped snowing for 3 days now, so it’s a little strange that I would be googling “Newfoundland Retreats”.
Discovering Helen Gregory (last post) reminded me of how much I wanted to go to Newfoundland and paint. I first got the idea in 2007, when one of my thesis teachers, Catherine Beaudette, talked about staying in Newfoundland in a little 100 year old historic fishing house, and painting all alone, collecting things on the beach, visiting natural history museums etc. I was enthralled and TOTALLY wanted to do it and thought it the most romantic thing in the world.
This morning, (2 1/2 years later) I’d been googling Newfoundland retreats, and came across this right away:
http://www.newfoundlandretreats.org/duntara.html
Imagine my surprise when I saw the contact. I had no idea she owns the place and rents it out – to artists. My heart is thrumping.
The first time I saw Catherine’s paintings at OCAD, my heart dropped kerplunk to my knees. If I could paint, I thought, that is exactly what it would look like (while glancing with approval at her well-worn blundstone boots).
Here are some of Catherine’s paintings. I’m not sure what she’s up to now, but I believe she is still Associate Professor at OCAD. Maybe I’ll know soon enough, when I contact her to escape to that little fishing hut in Newfoundland.
"Amoena", 2005, oil on canvas, copyright Catherine Beaudette
"Laccaria", 2006, oil on canvas, copyright Catherine Beaudette
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