One sunny afternoon while walking in High Park located in Toronto Canada I was awestruck by the colours so richly laid out before my eyes. A carpet of Cadmium yellow welcomed my steps as I strolled along . We so often take natures gifts for granted and miss out on the things that really matter in life. Fortunately for myself that day I wasn't preoccupied with extraneous details and took full advantage of a gift of gold.

    Watercolours have always been among my favourite mediums. “Gold Leaf” was painted shortly after the completion of a very tedious piece of work called“Still Wading” (Great Blue Heron),which was done in extreme detail.


I was looking for a subject that would be less demanding and found it in High Park on that fall day.“Gold Leaf” gave me the space I had been searching for and for that reason was and is to this day very special to me. It seems fitting that I found the freedom I was seeking in a wide open place like High Park with it's rolling hills and mature fauna. All that glitters is not guilded.