Vale Perkins

Vale Perkins: Selections from an Ongoing Series

Over the past twenty-five years I have painted the land and houses around the place I call home, Vale Perkins, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, close to the Vermont border. Most of the structures in my community have bravely weathered time; nothing much has changed since I moved into a small cabin at the junction of two streams leading to Lac Memphremagog. The paintings are not faithfully realistic. Rather, they depict an ordered reality, a suspended state of all time and all seasons, a space suffused with light and stillness.


The White Cottages (2013)	12x16"

These two identical summer cabins, built by George Smart, lie at the foot of Owl's Head, overlooking Mt. Elephantis. The following painting is of the field below.


Neighbors ( 2012)	24x30"


View from the Porch (2021)	16x20"

George Smart's Place (1998)

14x24"

George Smart's Woodshed (1999)

24x30"

East of the hamlet stretches Lac Mempremagog, visible in this view from Charlie Jewett's sugar shack.

After the Rain (2011)

30x40"

Chemin du Lac runs from Vale Perkins to Knowlton Landing. The following paintings are views and buidings along that route, starting with Jewett's Store to the small chapel at Peabody Road.