OVER the ROCKS, Vancouver BC | Enda Bardell

• GENTLE ROLL MEETS the GUARDS, Spanish Banks, Vancouver BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. I paint stories from my adventures, personifying everything as I see in human terms in Nature's interactions. These strong rocks guarding the shore are not going to allow the go sur…

• TRANSMUTATION, Spanish Banks, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. This work was inspired by a very low tide at Spanish Banks, Vancouver, BC, exposing rocks and seaweed like I have never seen before!

• ROCKWEED TRIO, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" unframed under mat. Could not resist capturing this group of rocks with their Beatle-like hair of rockweed performing on the beach!

• MEETING PLACE, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Great place to get together with a friend or just meditate while listening to gentle waves lapping on the shore.

• DEFENCE, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. This stronghold of solid rocks have protected our Point Grey Foreshore for ages. They are not moved by storms or humans.

• ACCESS, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouvcer BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 11" x 16x20" framed. Sometimes beach rocks open up a path for easier access to the sea down by Point Grey Foreshore, in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. This work is unframed under double white mat $600.

• BUSTLING BEACH, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. There is always something going on down at Point Grey Foreshore during an outgoing tide!

• FORTITUDE, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. These beach rocks are dedicated to strengtheng and protect our high bank at Point Grey Foreshore.

• FAMILY REUNION, Point Grey Foreshore. Vancouver, Canada

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" under mat only. I paint from sea to sky and beach rocks in between, telling stories of images as I seem them interacting with each other as in our human life.

• CONCLAVE, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. I see stories that need to be painted in almost everything I encouter on my outings compelling me to paint it. There seems to be a special private meeting of the minds of these rock…

• ROCKWEED CONFERENCE, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. I find fascninating patterns in rocks on the beach in my neighbourhood, depicting a somewhat human intersaction. Some are dominant - others play a lesser role in defending our shore.

• EBBING, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver BC

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. The outgoing tide exposes wonderful rock and seaweed formations off English Bay at Point Grey Foreshore creating fascinating patterns!

• LEDGING, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. There is so much to explore along Point Grey Foreshore in Vancouver, Canada, with Eocene sandstone shelving, mussel mash, and sea algae, making it challenging to decipher what to kee…

• FINDING a WAY, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. Water is the most powerful element on earth! It has a way of finding the path of least resistance! If there is an obstacle in its path, powerful water can jus push it aside and keep…

• BRACING, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 16" framed. My explorations of the rugged Point Grey Foreshore on the west side of Vancouver, offers a myriad of fascinating rock patterns, some ancient ledges, others newly formed by the strong…

• NUDGING, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 16" framed. When I explore my neighbourhood rocky beach, I see patterns in formations and sedimentary deposits which I need to capture and personify. I seem to see interaction of some kind in al…

• NOWHERE to GO, Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. During my explorations along Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, I see wonderful patterns in the rock formations of sedimentary deposits to capture in watercolour with water ever means…

• PRESSURED, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. My fascination with rock patterns along the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, where I see sea grasses struggling to grow through the cracks in the rock wall, seems to be never ending!…

• LAYABOUTS, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. On my walks along Point Grey Foreshore in Vancouver, I encounter wonderful rocks formations, which I love to personify, like this rocks doing nothing but lying around. However, they…

• SHELTERED, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. In my strolls at low tide on Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada, I come across rock formations which take on a human persona, like these smaller rocks being sheltered by the hig…

• WEDGING, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. Some of our beaches in Vancouver offer walls of sedimentary rock formations that have shifted over the ages, creating some fascinating shapes and patterns, compelling me to create so…

• SECURED, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. I am so attracted to the formations of sills and sedimentary rocks on my walks along Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, exploring the colours and patterns, using whatever means work to…

• RIVETED, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16 x 20" framed. Our Vancouver Shore is full of fascinating fossils and rock formations with intriguing patterns to capture with whatever method works with salt and spattering! I enjoy this letting l…

• ABANDONED, Point Grey Foreshore

  Paper, 16" x 20" framed. From strolling over the rocks at Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada, painted with 3 primary colours plus a dark during COVID-19.

• BOULDERSIDE, Point Grey

  Paper, 16" x 20". The Spring low tides in Vancouver's Point Grey offer spectacular subject matter. This view is looking towards English Bay and North Shore in Vancouver, Canada.

• CRAGGY, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolour, Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Endless subject matter along the shore of Point Grey Beach at low tide, English Bay, Vancouver, Canada. Under mat only, unframed $600..

• DEFIANCE (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Having walked passed this tree growing out of the sandstone at the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada, wondering about it and photographed it at least 10 times. The title had to be Defiance…

• HUDDLED (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 20 framed. Irresistable rough water on Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada!

• MACROALGEA MOUNDS, Point Grey Foreshore

  Watercolor, Paper, 16" x 20" unframed under mat. Slipping over millions of Macroalgae Mounds while hobbling over rocks on the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada.

• MUSSEL MASH (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 20 framed. Finding fascinating patterns in the rocks, mussel shells and barnacles at Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada.

• POOLING (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 20. Great beach beach during King Tide at Point Grey Beach, Vancouver, Canada!

• RECEDING (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Watercolor, Paper, 16 x 20. Social Distancing during COVID19 at low tide in Point Grey, Vancouver, Canada

• RIPPLING, English Bay

  Watercolour, Paper, 11" x 14" unframed under mat 16x20". Lovely slow rippling water over a small patch of sandy beach on the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada.

• ROCK CONFERENCE (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Could not resist painting this scene of rocks covered in barnacles, sea slime and crushed mussel shells gathered in a circle as if having a conference about sealife, preparing for the next tidal…

• SANDSTONE SHELVING (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Scrounging around the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada, for painting subjects, getting further into the crevices and sea algea.

• UP AGAINST the WALL (Point Grey Foreshore)

  Paper, 16" x 20" framed. Up against the wall is what it feels like when there is no freedom during this time of COVID-19, where I stroll over the rocks on the Point Grey Foreshore, Vancouver, Canada.