acrylic on canvas 24 x 28 inches

also available as an art card.

One lovely fall day I went to Harbour Park in Ladner to commune with the river. This is what the river told me. I later translated it into a painting.

"I asked river to tell me what it knows.

Silently it spoke to me as hawk soared so close I gasped.

Underneath the calm surface is a current so powerful

it is incomprehensible to the life it supports.

Hawk knows about that flow.

Go with it.

Be one with it.

Trust it.

It is your power, they both whispered to me.

Thanks, I said."

Marilyn Atkey

This painting has been accepted into artSpacific, a juried exhibition at the Firehall Centre for the Arts, 11489 84th Ave., North Delta B.C. April 14 - May 4 2007. The opening reception is Saturday April 14 from 1 - 4 pm.