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The September issue of En Route Magazine features 2 articles profiling Ucluelet.

One day in Ukee and we’re starting to think artistic talent blows in from the sea. Just walk down to Whiskey Landing – the building itself is a work of art – where the Cedar House Gallery shows off Vancouver Island First Nations art and crafts, including whalebone sculptures by Patrick Amos. At the neighbouring Mark Penney Gallery, we marvel at Metis artist Terry Jackson’s delicate slip-cast porcelain vessels depicting whales, coyotes and eagles. “

~ Marine Land – EnRoute Magazine

The Wild Pacific Trail is way more docile than the name suggests. Hugging the black rocks that rise along the craggy shore, this path is divvied up into three sections, allowing you take in the crashing waves and the forest in five minutes or 50. The surface is level enough that you can take a wheelchair or baby stroller for a spin here. And if hunger strikes during your mid-morning walk, just grab a table at Fetch at Black Rock Oceanfront Resort; the trail passes right by the restaurant’s patio. There are also benches placed along the route so you can sit down and admire the sunset, or just take a breather. And you may need it – the views are breathtaking.”

~ Happy Trails – EnRoute Magazine

Lighthouse Trail by Carole Finn
36″ x 48″ Acrylic on Canvas, framed
$5500

A distinct portion of the Wild Pacific Trail at Amphitrite Point (the very tip of Ucluelet’s Peninsula). The trees form a fantastic canopy overhead and glimpses of the pacific urge you to explore the trail further until you face the unbroken horizon of the open ocean and the lighthouse itself.

After a Storm in the Rainforest by Carole Finn
36″ x 48″ Acrylic on Canvas, framed
$5500

A foggy look at the Wild Pacific Trail. Carole’s large scale depictions the Trail show the many shifts in weather that the west coast experiences. Light filters in through the fog and streams into the Trail as the storm breaks and the sky opens up.

Wild Pacific Trail (Right Gulley) by Carole Finn
36″ x 60″ Acrylic on Canvas, framed
$6500

An impressionistic portrayal of the Wild Pacific Trail. Carole has been hard at work depicting the Trail in a series of large scale works. Here her attention is on the driftwood and debris that accumulates at the head of a local surge channel.

Pacific Dream by Ken Kirkby
30″x48″ Oils on Canvas
$4000

This painting depicts the view eastward from the lighthouse and it captures Chrow Island and Jenny Reef. In the foreground are the black rocks of Amphitrite Point as well as the waves crashing upon them. I’m startled by the apparent ease that Kirkby paints this; as many painters struggle to portray the Pacific with any realism.

Long Beach by Ken Kirkby

24″x48″ Oils on Canvas
$3000

A view of Long Beach, as seen by Ken Kirkby. The scene is completed by a singular tree silhouetted against the bright summer surf line.