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Columbine
Garden on Salt Spring
Island
Watercolour
©2012 Charlene Brown
It takes a lot longer to paint something than to photograph
it, but painters do have some huge advantages over photographers. My favourite is
that you can put whatever you want into your picture. Of course, this only
applies to painters not too tightly bound to reality, or to rules like ‘one
painting – one subject,’ which I’ve never liked much.
Photographers can get Mount Maxwell and the lovely little church
(it’s St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, should you be wondering) lined up in
one shot if they’re quick and pick the right moment as the ferry swings around
and heads for the dock at Fulford Harbour. But only a painter can work in this
spectacular columbine garden, which is not in fact located in the middle of the
harbour, but at an artist’s studio at the top of a precipitous drive up the
hill on the right.
