Patricia Morris

My Trans Canada Drive Process

Photos from adventures throughout Canada. Painting process and final paintings. The Trans Canada Drive experiences in images. Videos below.
Family piled into a car, smiling out the windows before setting off on a road trip
On our way east!
Back of a car completely coated in dried mud from a gravel road
The car after a week in the Nortwest Territories.
Motion-blurred photo of a house and autumn trees taken from a moving vehicle
Reference photo, shot from the moving car, NB.
Motion-blurred photo of a house with autumn trees, taken from a moving vehicle
Another drive-by reference shot, NB.
Motion-blurred photo of a red and orange autumn tree taken from a moving vehicle
This shot caught my eye.
Painting in progress of bare winter branches, based on a motion-blurred reference photo
Translating the blur onto canvas. Red Tree, New Brunswick process shot 1.
Finished painting of bare winter trees and a house rendered as horizontal streaks of motion
Translating the blur onto canvas. Red Tree, New Brunswick process shot 2.
Finished painting of a red and orange autumn tree rendered as streaks of motion against a blue sky
Red Tree, New Brunswick. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 inches.
A child smiling in a car seat beside a sleeping passenger during a road trip
Somewhere in the middle of a long drive. Bas-st-Laurent
A pop-up camper trailer parked on a grassy bluff overlooking the ocean at sunset
Camp for the night.
Miscou Island, New Brunswick
A person photographing icebergs from a coastal cliff
Stopping for icebergs along the coast. Newfoundland.
Three people smiling together in a sunny selfie
My drivers were always great company.
Two people in a car holding soft-serve ice cream cones
An ice cream stop.
Two people smiling in a car selfie
Heading east again!
Two people smiling in a selfie on a beach
A beach stop along the way.
The Fogo Island Inn perched on wooden stilts above snowy rocks in Newfoundland
The Fogo Island Inn, Newfoundland.
Two people toasting with dark cocktails in martini glasses
Toasting the journey.
Two people posing under the Arctic Circle sign at latitude 66 degrees 33 minutes north
Crossing the Arctic Circle.
Two people posing in front of the Welcome to Tuktoyaktuk sign
Reaching Tuktoyaktuk.
Two people posing at the 60th Parallel sign welcoming visitors to the Northwest Territories
Into the Northwest Territories.
A blank canvas leaning against a paint-splattered studio wall next to an antique chair
A blank canvas, ready to begin.
A painter's palette loaded with mixed colour and brushes
Mixing colour on the palette.
Three large finished motion-blur paintings hanging on a paint-splattered studio wall
Finished paintings in the studio.
Canvases wrapped in protective bubble wrap and packing paper, ready to be shipped
Wrapped and ready to ship.
Paintings installed on white walls in a gallery exhibition space
Hanging in the gallery.
Collage of gallery visitors photographing the Patricia Morris exhibition on their phones
Visitors taking it all in.