I’m greatly honoured and totally thrilled to have a painting of mine chosen by the jury to be part of the Royal Trust Collection at Windsor Castle. The CSPWC has the privilage of sending 25 watercolour paintings to the Royal Trust Collection to mark the 100th year of our founding in representing the finest of watercolour painting in Canada.
The 25 works will show in Canada in 2025, and in 2026 will be shipped to England.
“Water’s Colours – Elements Dance in Time” 15″x 22″
I sat as the kayak bounced in the choppy waves, awed by the creation beside me. The sunlight and water were dancing with the reflections of the ancient quartzite boulder.
Ontario’s white La Cloche mountains were thrust upward more than 1.88 billion years ago. The metamorphic rock had been heated and compressed beneath the earth’s crust, folding in minerals like a baker kneading, particularly iron oxide, the iron of the earth, the iron of our blood. This took many millions of years.
Beneath the quartzite mountain, boulders fell to the shores of this Killarney lake. Our sun reached down to the cold clear water, creating a dynamic ever-changing dance of light and colour and time. The colours of water, sky, minerals, life and light all move in a complexity of science and life.
Time of billions, time of milliseconds, dancing in the artist’s eye.
Elizabeth Gilbert Watercolour Artist 