Brian Buckrell

Brian retired from the University of Guelph (veterinary medicine and agriculture) in 2001 and relocated, with his wife Cathy, to Comox B.C., on beautiful Vancouver Island. In 2004, he began a self directed program of applied learning working alongside highly acclaimed artists in Canada and the US. In 2007, he invested in full time study [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Mythography

Mythography by Ken Kirkby
30″x60″
Oils on Canvas
$5000

This painting will appear on the cover of a book being published by Libros Libertad featuring poetry by Manolis and artwork by Ken Kirkby and friends. They’ve done this type of collaboration before; Vespers is a stunning book of paintings and prose; it [...]

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5 of the World’s Most Expensive Paintings

With some of the Art world’s highest sums being paid for select artists in recent auctions across the globe. One wonders what, in fact, are the World’s Most Expensive Paintings?

World’s 5 Most Expensive Paintings:

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Jeff Edwards · Goddess Sculpture

Goddess by Jeff Edwards
Marble (locally quarried  stone)

Approximately 14″ x 12″ x 8.5″
$1600

Jeff is a local fixture in Ucluelet, and quite literally a household name. It rare that a sculptor meets with this level of regional recognition.

Although he’s best known for amazing wildlife portrayals, we’ve asked him specifically [...]

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Bruce Muir · Roller in Barkley Sound

Roller in Barkley Sound by Bruce Muir
9″x 12″ acrylic on board, framed.
$800

A ‘roller’ (a big breaking wave) roaring into the entrance of Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island. Bruce has captured the beauty of the west coast in this small painting with just a few elements present in the scene.

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Ken Kirkby · Sea Shore Series (2)

Sea Shore Series (2) – Ken Kirkby
20″x24″ Oil on Canvas
sold (private collection)

An early work by Ken Kirkby depicting a moon-snail shell on the beach, it a boy-ish painting created when he’d first arrived on Vancouver Island, some 52 years ago.

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Allison Tremain · Current Installation

Allison Tremain’s current installation of lino-cut block prints have been getting a lot of attention. As an emerging artist she’s been selected as the 2012 WhaleFest Poster Artist (quite an honour in this area).

This type of printmaking is a very traditional practice, carving each color in succession into a sheet of linoleum ( or [...]

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Andy Warhol Week : 10 pieces fetch more than $115M

Tuesday at Sotheby’s in New York; a 1964 print of former US first lady Jackie Kennedy sold for $20.24 million and Warhol’s Shadow – Red which – at just under $5 million.

Wednesday at Christie’s, Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait, a four-part, blue acrylic silkscreen print depicting himself in a trench [...]

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Banksy : “If graffiti changed anything – it would be illegal”

“If graffiti changed anything – it would be illegal” by Banksy

Banksy has put up a new piece in Central London over the Easter weekend. Street Art London posted photos and well, street art is to be shared. Besides, who doesn’t love Banksy.

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Ken Kirkby – Nil Carborundum Iligitimi

“Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down”

Some twenty years ago a small group from the Village of Bowser on the east coast of Vancouver Island got together. Their aim; to restore Nile Creek. As rivers go, it’s small. What it represents is large.

Nile Creek was once known as the [...]

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Thomas Schmidt

Tom works in most mediums but prefers stone, most notably marble, since 1970. Starting in the early ’60′s shaping surfboards and working in clay, he soon realised he would be shaping things all his life. He welcomes commissions and encurages people to be part of the process. Born and raised in Southern California and growing [...]

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Mark Penney Gallery · A Place to Find Yourself · March 19th-31st

For 12 days coinciding with Whale Festival, March 19th – 31th, we’ll be exhibiting a group show consisting of gallery artists with a focus on the area and it’s inspiration to the arts.

Welcome the Whales, as they migrate past Ucluelet and join us for an Art Exhibition featuring some of
the area’s finest [...]

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Marla Thirsk · Manifest

Manifest by Marla Thirsk
37″x42″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2200

Similar to ‘The Telephone Call’, but featuring a large format floral backdrop, this depiction of the Artist’s mother is a moody portrait eluding to the nature of their relationship.

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Marla Thirsk · Beginning

Beginning  by Marla Thirsk
37″x42″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2200

A larger format series is emerging from the easel of Artist Marla Thirsk. Yes they are still portraits of her Mother, and yes this is the same figure featured in the preceding series. The arrangement has changed somewhat; A large flower depicted in the [...]

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Rob Elphinstone – Feature Artist at Nanaimo Art Gallery

Butchart Gardens II by Rob Elphinstone

FEATURE ARTIST SHOW
Downtown Nanaimo Art Gallery, December 16th, 2010 to January 8th, 2011

Rob Elphinstone specializes in capturing the beauty of the Canadian west coast through his textured wild flowing landscapes.

The exhibition at the Nanaimo Art Gallery will include landscape paintings from across Vancouver Island and [...]

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Alex Colville; Canadian Art Heavyweight

Heffel Auction House sold $14-million worth of Canadian Art on Thursday, setting at least a dozen Canadian fine art auction records. Among the impressive group of Canadian paintings and cultural masterworks was a piece by living Canadian Artist; Alex Colville.

Colville’s Man on Verandah (painted in 1953) was expected to bring in [...]

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Early Lawren Harris (attributed) bought for less than $4

An unsigned canvas that was purchased for just under $4 in New Zealand at a rummage sale will be offered at auction next week by Aesthete Gallery in Hamilton, New Zealand.

The original oil painting, depicting a river scene has been attributed it to Canadian Artist, and group of [...]

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Katsumi Kimoto

I was raised up in the small coastal community of Ucluelet, BC, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. For the greater part of my life, this place I call home has been my inspiration. Quintessential westcoast images were featured throughout my childhood paintings and prevailed even until my university years in Concordia. [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Pacific Dream (Chrow Island)

Pacific Dream by Ken Kirkby
30″x48″ Oils on Canvas
Awarded in Ucluelet Aquarium Fund-raising Effort

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 [...]

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Marla Thirsk · Released

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 [...]

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Marla Thirsk · Access Denied

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 [...]

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Nana Cook

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 [...]

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Rob Elphinstone – Cover of Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine

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 [...]

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Marla Thirsk – On the Cover, Wine Trail 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 [...]

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Christian Morriseau · The Demon Within Me

The Demon Within Me by Christian Morriseau
28″x40″ acrylic on canvas, framed
$2500

Christian is the youngest son of legendary Canadian Artist; Norval Morriseau. He expresses complex messages in the contemporary woodland Cree style his father established, as a boy Christian painted backgrounds for Norval, noting the healing colors his father [...]

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Dianne Michelin

Dianne Michelin, a professional watercolour artist for over 19 years, and the Trout Unlimited Canada 2009 Artist of the Year, Diane was born in Montreal and currently resides in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Academic and Artistic Studies:
BA UQUAM – University of Quebec, Montreal
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Haliburton [...]

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MLA Scott Fraser is a Supporter of the Arts

Tuesday, April 26th, 2010, BC Legislature, Victoria, BC

Scott Fraser, MLA for Alberni-Pacific Rim will address the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Artist Joan Larson will be present for Mr. Fraser’s speech and public endorsement of Larson’s RCMP Musical Ride Series.

When Mr. Fraser visited our Fish, Ships & Lost Art Treasures [...]

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Rob Elphinstone · Tofino Harbour

Tofino Harbour by Rob Elphinstone
15″ x 30″ Oils on canvas, framed
(sold) private collection

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.

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Rob Elphinstone · Pacific Rim Surfer

Pacific Rim Surfer by Rob Elphinstone
11″ x 17″ Oils on canvas, framed
(sold) private collection

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 [...]

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Charles Churhill Villiers – New Website

Modern artist, Charles Churchill Villiers has just launched his new website: www.charlesvilliers.com.
Charles has constructed his own website and in doing so, has realized a long held goal of managing his own on-line presence.

The website, like his artwork, is more than a little avant garde. The site opens with the question “What [...]

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westcoaster.ca Breaks News of $4M Kirkby Fund Raising Effort

Kevin Drews of the westcoaster.ca interviewed Ken Kirkby regarding his recent series of paintings and his plans for raising money for Salmon Enhancement.
the original article is published here

Painting A future for Vancouver Island’s Fish-Bearing Streams

Published Date: 2010/3/19 17:27:31
Article ID : 7653
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Press Relese – Fish, Ships, & Lost Treasures Art Exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

Fish, Ships, & Lost Treasures
Art Exhibition
March 6 – 16th, 2010

From Saturday, March 6th to Tuesday, March 16th, the Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet welcomes the whales with the Art Exhibition Fish, Ships, & Lost Art Treasures.
The gallery, located in Whiskey Landing, is “a [...]

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