In late September and early October of 2004 Mary and I toured the old confederate states of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky in our automobile. I made sketches for paintings and colour notes along the way. Unfortunately, due to damage in an incident involving Hurricane Ivan, many studies for paintings were lost.

From those sketches which survived I made twenty three 18 x 24 inch (46 x 61 cm) acrylic paintings on canvas laminated to one quarter inch maple plywood between late October 2004 and late August 2005.

The series is vaguely modeled after the paint recorded tours to the south taken by northern European artists of the nineteenth century as explorations of light, colour, warmth, and civilization.

The finished paintings are varnished with three coats of acrylic polymer and three coats of removable acrylic varnish and a final three light diffusing sprayed coats of removable acrylic varnish.

For details contact: barrysmylie@rogers.com