This past week I was the lucky recipient of an incredibly touching surprise. A good friend from home, Sarah McCann, contacted me to let me know her daughter Emma was working on a painting based on one of my recent photos from Peggy’s Cove. On Friday, in the midst of a drive back from my hometown, Sarah posted Emma’s painting. I had to pull over and smile at this wonderful surprise and brilliant painting by a talented young artist. You should meet her!
Emma McCann is an up-and-coming 16-year-old artist from Sarnia, Ontario. Emma has been drawing most of her life but has recently found a new medium of expression, acrylics on canvas, of which the painting above is a shining example. For Emma, painting is a release: “when I paint, its like leaving the world and all of it’s problems behind, and entering a place where the only things that exist are the brush and the canvas.” I am so impressed with Emma’s thoughtful understanding of her artistic process, and her ability to bring an iconic Canadian East Coast landscape to life with her brush. Emma, thank you for sharing your talent!
If you would like to see the original photo on which this beautiful painting is based, please check out my photo gallery here. My guess is you will gasp, and then want Emma to paint your favourite landscape!
Happy Canada Day everyone!
Hi, I’m Patti, wonderer, wanderer and photographer. During the week I’m a marketer in the publishing industry and on weekends I take to the road to explore this beautiful planet we live on. 