Landscapes and townscapes, filtered by imagination and rendered with different media and techniques: Theo’s paintings of places vary considerably. He did many of his watercolour landscapes, for instance, deliberately to illustrate specific places in his beach and hiking guidebooks, but he veers with other paintings away from likeness into abstract. In addition to landscapes, he has been intrigued by the “scapes” created by people — the streets, rooftops, castles, and architectural forms of old Europe most particularly. When these merge with legend and fantasy, they are presented on this website under Stories.

Land, Sea Impressions

Townscapes

Guatemala

Theo’s visit to Guatemala, volunteering in a school, made a deep impression. If you’ve already looked at the page on People, you’ll understand that he was absorbed by faces and expressions. Below is just one impression of the marketplace in Santiago on Lake Atitlan.

Vancouver Island and Gulf Island Landscapes

Theo did most of the paintings immediately below as illustrations for his hiking books. He is selling the dwindling supply of original paintings for direct donation to Doctors without Borders.