Showing posts with label corkscrew swamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corkscrew swamp. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Florida Cypress

Florida Cypress Trees
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
24" x 36"
oil on canvas

I painted this scene from sketches made on the boardwalk



Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States. The sanctuary was established to protect one of the largest remaining stands of bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and pond cypress (T. ascendens) in North America from extensive logging that was ongoing throughout the 1940s and 50s.

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary



A series of paintings of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
near Naples, Florida.
I've spent many hours working plein air in this magical place- looking to capture the essence of the pristine Florida wilderness- perhaps somehow witnessing through proximity to these massively giant trees that are a living link to secrets thousands of years old.

Corkscrew Sentinels
16" x 24"

Corkscrew Giants
19" x 28"
Grove of the Ancients
24" x 36"
Corkscrew Sunrise
22" x 36"
Ancient Witness
18" 26"

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Corkscrew Sentinels



Here's a plein air scene I painted in the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Southwest Florida.
Although situated in the city proper of Naples, the park is actually closer to Immokalee and Fort Myers.




Corkscrew Sentinels
14" x 26"
oil on linen

Florida Slash Pine Hammock

  Old Florida Slash Pine Hammock oil/linen 24" x 12" Old Florida Backcountry oil painting of Slash Pine  and Saw Palmetto Forest