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.
Released by Marla Thirsk
30″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$1500
Many Artists deal with dark inner subjects in their art, somehow they get released in the very act of creating art. Marla has freed herself from the inner ‘demons’ that a very tortured relationship with her mother had created. Released is an exciting addition to this series of paintings, despite the dark source of inspiration in the artists experience.
Access Denied by Marla Thirsk
30″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$1500
“Access Denied – She never let me in, and I didn’t let her in either.” says Marla about this painting.
I feel as though we’ve been invited to get to know a side of Marla through these paintings, as side she’d never be able to explain in words.
Canadian artist and writer, Nana Cook, Lives in Nanoose Bay. Although she is known for her passion for painting the American Southwest – a land she has loved and explored since childhood, Nana is also compelled to paint the dramatic beauty surrounding her home in the Pacific northwest, and has created an extensive and provocative body of work featuring the region’s extraordinary arbutus trees.
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Gallery Representation:
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria.
Artfitterz ,
Nanaimo.
Mark Penney Gallery , Ucluelet
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Nanaimo Art Gallery,
Nanaimo.
Qualicum Frameworks Gallery , Qualicum Beach.
Showings and Exhibitions:
Publications:
-Island Arts Magazine- Feature Artist
-Momentum – Contemporary Works by Chinese and Canadian Women Artists
-Driftwords 2005
-Women’s Declaration – Contemporary Women Artists’ Exhibition
-Travelers’ Tales Guides Grand Canyon: True Stories of Life Below the Rim
-G.B. and the Strange Canadian Painter Lady
-Delta Community Arts Council: An Illustrated Directory of Delta Artists Anniversary Edition 1969 – 1989
Associations:
Mountain Artists Guild – Prescott, Arizona
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria – Victoria, B.C.
Nanaimo Art Gallery – Nanaimo, B.C.
The Old School House Arts Centre – Qualicum Beach, B.C.
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.
Marla Thirsk Art, Cover of WineTrails Magazine
Wine Trails Magazine, Summer 2010 Issue features Marla Thirsk’s Art on it’s cover. Just inside the cover is explained the following:
Marla Thirsk was born in Vancouver, BC and showed an early aptitude for art by drawing in the cover pages of her father’s university books at the age of 2. Her Art career really started when she decided to change her life around by believing in herself and following her life-long dream of being a professional artist. Since then she has created award winning posters for the Whale Festival, Edge to Edge Marathon, Ukee Days and just finished one for the Tofino Food and Wine Festival. She has designed logos and costumes and done set design. She was president of the the Pacific Rim Arts Society for six years running. She has painted every mural in her town of Ucluelet but one and continues to be a major figure in the planning of local Art Events. She has worked in all mediums but oil. Her works have sold and gone worldwide. She proudly wears the title of “Towns’s Artist”.
The original acrylic paintings in the theme of the Tofino Food and Wine Poster on this issue’s cover are the newest venture for her. They are inspired by old photos ofher mother from the 30′s to early 60′s and old french postcards of the 1800′s and early 1900′s. with these new works she feels she has finally found her own unique style. for a more comprehensive look at her work, please visit her website (www.marlathirsk.com) or see her work at Cedar Corner Gallery in Tofino and Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet.
The magazine is widely circulated in BC and can be found at most BC Liquor and Beer & Wine Stores, the painting was created specifically for Tofino’s 8th annual Food and Wine Festival which ran June 4th-6th.
