Allan O'Marra Art

I came across this view of a local lake with the striking image of a red canoe sitting tied to a dock with muted background colours. I turned it into a painting with the colours in t...

While canoeing on the lake at the front of my home in rural Ontario, Canada, I find many shore area groupings of the local pickerel weed plant--and have captured images of them and p...

I spread a bunch of mixed colour poppy seeds in my flower garden and this was one of the blooms that showed up. I knew right away it would be the subject of one of my paintings. :: P...

I canoe often on the lake in front of my property in the Maxwell Settlement near Bancroft, Ontario Canada and get lots of images with my camera of the plants in the water--including ...

This former rural Ontario Canada one-room schoolhouse was built in 1910 and my family home starting in 1955. After inheriting it in 2009, it is now my permanent residence. This image...

This is a view from the back of my property in the Maxwell Settlement, Ontario of the large field and distant hills with lovely colours and mist drifting across over the trees. :: Pa...

While canoeing in the lake in the front of my property in the Maxwell Settlement, Ontario, Canada, I capture lots of pictures of various combinations of the plant, pickerel weed and ...

An image from the many I find while canoeing on the lake in front of my property near Bancroft, Ontario, Canada. Usually the chosen reference is realism but in this case I was struck...

My late mother planted this annual type of flower in my (now) country studio/home decades ago and they appeared every year up until recently. And even though I have seeds I saved, th...

This is a set of abandoned farm buildings on the lake where I live in rural Ontario. I have photographed it numerous times while canoeing and this is the second painting I have creat...

An image of a maple leaf on location in the fall with distant landscape--created to honour the official symbol of Canada--the True North Strong and Free :: Painting :: Realism :: Thi...

To honour the official flower symbol of Ontario Canada, I painted this trillium I found in springtime on the edge of the Clark Lake Road near where I live in the Maxwell Settlement o...

Most of my landscape themes have blue skies with white clouds or multi-coloured sunsets. But this one I painted to celebrate the magic/glory that can happen in a sky with a fully gre...

My favourite flower and floral scent is the wild rose. This is a painting from reference of a perennial rose bush growing by the side of the lake near where I live outside the town o...

A late autumn lakescape at my rural Canadian art studio/retreat :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...

This is the sixth in a series of still lifes I have created over the years of antique bottles I've collected and keep displayed in windows in my rural s...

A simple view of a road rising up a hill .passing a church and disappearing over the hill top and into a beautiful blue sky with white clouds :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece com...

This is a view while travelling down a highway in central Ontario, Canada, 45 kilometers south of where I live near the town of Bancroft. I loved the cloud structure and captured the...