West Coast Troller by Rob Elphinstone
11″ x 17″ Oils on canvas, framed
$1000
This is a small ‘double ender’, a kind of wooden troller that was common among the fishermen in the area before the second world war. The small pilot house and trunk cabins gave way to larger west coast wheelhouses and increasingly larger hulled boats. These are still very seaworthy boats and it’s a great pleasure for me to see them actively fishing…. this is where wild pacific salmon come from.
Trail to South Beach by Rob Elphinstone
11″ x 17″ Oils on canvas, framed
sold (private collection)
An emotional depiction of a well known local spot. After seeing these specific locations while visiting the area many people are stuck by how well Rob’s paintings capture the essence of what it feels like to stand there. I find myself staring into the paintings in the same way I stare of into the view when I’m there.
The oil painting “Together” by Rob Elphinstone is featured on the cover of the summer issue of the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine (CJRM).
CJRM is a peer reviewed medical journal that, since its inception in 1995, has always had a work of art with a rural theme and by a Canadian artist on its cover. They have had such artists as David Blackwood, Maud Lewis, Anne Meredith Berry and Bill Mason grace it’s covers.
The journal goes out to all of Canada’s 6000 rural doctors as well as to medical schools, hospitals and media. An on-line version of the publication is available on the Canadian Medical Association’s website.
Tofino Harbour by Rob Elphinstone
15″ x 30″ Oils on canvas, framed
$1600
Here we can see the various buildings, floathouses and boats in the bay as well as the Seafood and Shellfish processing plants that line the foreshore of Tofino Harbour. There’s always something going on in the busy harbour.
Pacific Rim Surfer by Rob Elphinstone
11″ x 17″ Oils on canvas, framed
$1000
The beaches of Pacific rRim National Park are some of the few places where you can surf in Canada. In recent years there has been a resurgence of local surf culture and growing number of surfers are traveling here to experience the cold water and large waves for themselves… you could live on the inside of the island your whole life and never see waves like these.
Lennard Island Lighthouse by Rob Elphinstone
11″ x 17″ Oils on canvas, framed
$1000
The lighthouses that dot the coast of Vancouver Island are distinctly recognizable ; anyone who has been to Cox Bay surely remembers this particular small island and ‘house. This is a wonderfully uplifting depiction of that majestic candle left on for the fishermen and sailors approaching Tofino.
West Coast Troller by Rob Elphinstone
