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The Backstory:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s no accident that Prince Edward Island leads the line up of\u00a0my Canada 150 Sesquicentennial paintings. My prairie roots reach all the way across the country to New Perth, near Montague, on the eastern end of the island.<\/p>\n My maternal grandfather, John St Clair Hamilton, was born in New Perth in 1884. He came west and homesteaded at Viscount, Saskatchewan in 1910. It was here that he met and married my grandmother, and raised five daughters including my mom, Ruth.<\/p>\n I first set foot on PEI in the early 1970\u2019s, when I travelled to attend a University Student Conference in Charlottetown. During that visit my mom\u2019s cousin, Ola, toured me around the island \u2013 including visits to the original family stomping grounds and the seaside. I remember being fascinated by the lighthouses with their varied shapes and sizes (like this one at Covehead Harbour).<\/p>\n A decade later my husband and I spent a few days on PEI in the month of June. The lupins bloomed in the ditches from one end of the island to the other. We enjoyed seeing them almost as much as we enjoyed sampling\u00a0the lobsters.<\/p>\n A Prince Edward Island spruce tree towers over the front of our home here in Saskatoon. My mom pulled that little spruce sapling from the ditch in PEI on her visit to the island in the mid ’80s. We planted it here in Saskatoon, never expecting it to survive the winter. It\u2019s now well over 30 feet in height \u2013a testament to PEIslander hardiness.<\/p>\n How You Can\u00a0Make This Painting Yours: \u00a0<\/strong>In honor of our country\u2019s 2017 anniversary celebrations,\u00a0I\u2019ve created one watercolor painting to honor each province.<\/p>\n One unique provincial landscape, seascape or streetscape will be featured each week throughout the summer. Ten paintings are up for grabs \u2013 one for each province \u2013 and one each week.<\/p>\n Each original painting is 8\u201d x 10\u201d in size and each one will arrive mounted in a double white mat bringing the outer dimensions to 11\u201d x 14\u201d – ready to pop into a standard frame of your own choosing.<\/p>\n The price for each painting will be $150 (taxes included) plus $15 for shipping to anywhere in Canada.<\/p>\n If you are looking for a unique remembrance of Canada 150, and you’ve always wanted to buy an original watercolor from the Pauseworks Studio, here’s your chance.<\/p>\n Just send me an email message with the words \u2018Canada 150 – I’ll Take It’ in the subject line. The first reader to call dibs on each week’s masterpiece takes it. Good luck to all!<\/p>\n