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Winter Beach |
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27.5 x 23.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
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“Winter Beach”
The New Year’s weekend for 2010 turned out to be quite an adventure for Diane and I. We reserved a cabin early, little knowing a fierce winter storm with high seas at White Point Lodge click here for more... |
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Painter At Tide Head |
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18 x 48 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$40,000 |
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on back side:
The watercolour painted on site of the head of the tide on the big salmon river moved me to paint this work, but with all my watercolour, that move along to egg tempera paintings, click here for more... |
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Lost Spoon Found |
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7 x 41 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$15,000 |
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“Lost Spoon Found” “Lost…Spoon found” “Missing Spoon” Please give it your own title. “Spoon found in the Shells and Grass”
One must look close to see the spoon. Diane lent me this silver spoon click here for more... |
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Fog Rolling In, Devil's Island |
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6 x 16.25 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$8,000 |
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on back of painting:
“Fog Rolling In, Devil’s Island” “Harbour Entrance” – egg tempera. Tom Forrestall. March 2011.
This painting, size and shape is part of the three done at Hartland’s click here for more... |
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Alerted Cats |
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24 x 16 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$18,000 |
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“Alerted Cats . . . Distant Island” Egg Tempera. April, 2011. The watercolour and drawings for this painting were done in the old St. Paul’s graveyard in Dartmouth, looking out over click here for more... |
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Couple Near a Lighthouse |
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7.5 x 28.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$15,000 |
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“Couple Near a Lighthouse” “Man, Woman and Dog on an Island” “Devil’s Island Visit”
“Out on the Point”
The shaped panel is a great challenge to tackle, small or click here for more... |
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Three Spoons Four Feathers |
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9.5 x 17 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$12,000 |
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‘Three Spoons Four feathers In Rust And Dirt’, Egg tempera Oct. 09. I started sprinkling on dots, dashes and line with ink and scratching it out. It did not convince me . . . so the studio floor was swept click here for more... |
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Pine near Grand Lake |
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24 x 30 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$25,000 |
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This pine tree near Grand Lake has attracted me for at least a decade or more. I would drive by it with a long look and expression of interest. “One of these days” I would say to myself, but I wasn’t click here for more... |
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Basin Road (diptych) |
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24 x 72 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$55,000 |
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“Basin Road’ “The Rotten Wormy Windfalls and the Winter Wood” “Windfalls and Woods”
Egg Tempera Sept. - Oct. - Dec. 2010. Every painting I grapple with is a struggle, a battle to stand still. This click here for more... |
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Island In Fog |
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6 x 20.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$8,000 |
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“Island in Fog” egg tempera. April 2011. Tom Forrestall.
Returning to a place that I’ve so often delved into over the years presents interesting revelations. The more I return, the more the click here for more... |
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Summer |
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22.5 x 15 Inches |
watercolour |
$4,000 |
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Crane |
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15 x 22.5 Inches |
watercolour |
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The Watcher |
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15 x 15 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$14,000 |
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verso: "It is part of my expression to distance myself from reality, this painting is entirely made up...it [is] real in one way and not in another". |
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Wreck in Fog |
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7.75 x 6.75 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
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verso: "Returning to look and see more, this watercolour done in 1980 of a Cape Island boat on the rocks at Delap's Cove. Fog has become very interesting for me as I'm starting a very large painting for click here for more... |
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The Winter Shore |
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24.5 x 48 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
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Verso:
"The Winter Shore", "Beach in December", "Frozen Beach" Dec 2008/Jan 2009- always give my painting your own title and write me of its whereabouts
Nova Scotia is just about an click here for more... |
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Above Bear Island |
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7 x 41 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$15,000 |
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“Above Bear Island”
At the mouth of the Bear River, with the Annapolis Basin and the Digby Gut. In the distance and the Bay of Fundy beyond. If one drives east from Digby on the 101, a few kilometers click here for more... |
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Alone in the Woods |
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7.75 x 41 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$15,000 |
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“Alone in the Woods” “Stump and Painter” “Alone, Near Grand Lake” Tom Forrestall. Summer ‘06
Painting is a lonely trade. One must look inwards and draw upon their own resources. Whatever they click here for more... |
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Ocean Fog |
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6 x 20.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$8,000 |
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Verso:
“Ocean Fog” “Devil’s Island in fog” “Two bites of the island” Please give it your own title and thereby partake with it. Egg tempera. March 2011. Near home… Tom Forrestall.
This click here for more... |
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Shades Lost In The Leaves |
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15.5 x 15.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$15,000 |
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“Shades Lost in the Leaves” “Sunglasses Found” “Lost of Found”…whatever you’re inclined to call it… I’m intrigued by this switch. In the same work…how negative the “Lost” is and how positive the “Found”…the click here for more... |
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Summerbeach At Night |
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6 x 20.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$8,000 |
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“Summer Beach at Night” “Night” egg tempera. Tom Forrestall. March 2011.
Painted mostly from imagination, this is a perfect example of starting a painting and not knowing what will happen or click here for more... |
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Watcher At the Point |
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6 x 20.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$8,000 |
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on back of painting:
“Watcher at the Pointer” “Fog on the Island” “Bird Watcher” egg tempera. Tom Forrestall. March 2011.
in the studio I hit a wall with this shape, so I went back to click here for more... |
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Hunter in the Long Grass |
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24.5 x 24.5 Inches |
egg tempera on gessoed panel |
$28,000 |
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I slaved at this painting all summer, it was a struggle all the way. Working on it, leaving for a few days to work on other paintings (I work on 4 or 5 paintings at the same time) always proves to me click here for more... |
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to see more work by Tom Forrestall click here.
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