Van Isl 360 International Yacht Race

Van Isle 360 International Yacht Race is a biennial, 580 nm. point to point race circumnavigating Vancouver Island. Sailed in ten legs the course provides inshore, offshore and overnight legs through some of the most stunning and challenging waters on the planet.

This years race is well underway with the fleet [...]

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Edge to Edge Marathon · June 12th

This years’ edge to edge marathon is this weekend.

Follow an undulating course from the town of Tofino to the village of Ucluelet. Marathon and relay teams will run on beautiful Chesterman’s Beach in Tofino, and through the Pacific Rim National Park, while half marathoners will be treated to a run on the Wild [...]

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Ucluelet Chefs · Whiskey Dock Spot Prawn Festival

Feast BC’s Ucluelet Spot Prawn Festival

Where: Ucluelet, at the Whiskey Dock

When: Saturday, May 28th 1:00pm-3:00pm

Tickets: FREE, it’s a public event

Description:

Ucluelet Chefs Whiskey Dock Spot Prawn Festival with Special Guest Chef Canadian Gold Medal Plates Winner 2010, Hyatto Okamitsu.

A tasting of Local Spot [...]

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Mark Penney Gallery awards $10K worth of original artwork in Aquarium Fundraiser.

Joan Larson and Ken Kirkby, two of Canada’s finest artists, donated original works to be awarded to the highest contributors in Ucluelet Aquarium’s recent fund raising efforts.
In October, Joan Larson unveiled her RCMP Musical Ride Series in Ucluelet at the Community Center. She was joined by artist Ken Kirkby who exhibited his [...]

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Joan Larson – In Celebration of Canada

In Celebration of Canada – Joan Larson’s RCMP Musical Ride Series

March 11th-13th at the Bradley center in Coombs

Joan is showing her RCMP Musical Ride Series in Coombs. A stunning collection of pastel depictions, celebrating a national icon. This series is one of those ‘must be seen in person’ to be appreciated exhibitions. These [...]

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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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Sail Past in Ucluelet

Sail Past in Ucluelet, a bunch of the local boats adorned with lights and decorations will cruise up and down the harbour and usually mill around in front of whiskey Dock.

It’s been postponed this year because of inclement weather… a few photos from SailPast

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Midnight Madness – Rock, Paper, Scissors * Up to 30% Off!

Midnight Madness; Started by Mr.Coulson at The Place TV, has long since been a local Christmas shopping tradition in Ucluelet. Jingle into Xmas held in Tofino emulates the successful event here. Dave at the Place is known to throw a pretty wild Midnight Madness sale. Pina, Tula, the Co-op, Crow’s Nest, the retailers at [...]

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What’s Happening: WhaleFest listed in Wall Street Journal Article

The Pacific Rim Whale Festival (‘WhaleFest’, locally ) was mentioned in an article appearing online in the Wall Street Journal featuring a list of great things to do or see in 2010/11.

The list of activities and events that writer Andy Georgiades chose to highlight included the ROM ( Royal [...]

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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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Marla Thirsk · Recognized by Sooke Fine Arts Society

   Sooke Fine Arts Society has an annual art show consisting of works by hundreds of area artists and is attended by more than 7000 visitors each year. This year the event runs from July 24th ’til August 2nd. Regionally, it’s a fairly high profile event.

It’s jurored by Jeffrey Spalding the President [...]

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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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Candian Painter; Lawren Harris, Fetching Huge Sums

Lawren Harris’s Bylot Island I, an oil painting of a stylized arctic mountain range sold for $2.8 million The fourth-highest price ever for a Canadian painting sold at auction.

“An Arctic Lawren Harris is one of the rarest commodities in the Canadian art world,” said David Heffel, president of the Heffel auction [...]

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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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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

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Winter Wave Photo Showdown

I managed to enter a few photos into the Winter Wave Photo Showdown
I’m really looking forward to seeing the other entries, I know a few people who’ve entered the contest.

I caught a glimpse of royal blue matte and metallic silver frames to be used when I dropped of my entry at The [...]

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Kunamokst unveiled as part of the 2010 Winter Games

Kunamokst – Coastal Inspirations Mural Mosaic Unveiling

Coast and Trees 12″x12″ Oils, plate 81 of Coastal Inspirations Mural Mosaic by Rob Elphinstone

For the last year and a half over 200 of some of Canada’s finest artists from along the west coast have collaborated to create a stunning 12 foot x 21 foot [...]

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Teresa Knight

Teresa Knight
Teresa has her B.A. in Studio Arts and Bachelor of Education in Art from the University of British Columbia.
She started painting with her sisters to pass rainy days at the cottage, and then continued with art as her career and passion.  She now paints and teaches out of her Union [...]

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When is Whale Festival? March 6th-14th

www.pacificrimwhalefestival.com
24th Annual Pacific Rim Whale Festival – March 6th-14th, 2010

The Whale Fest posters have started to appear … with great anticipation. This year
Angie Roussin ( of Pina ) is the featured poster artist. She grew up in a commercial fishing family and has opened her shop here [...]

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Charles Churchill Villiers – a Self Portrait Series (Digital Prints)

In 2004 I was asked to print a series of work by artist, and personal friend of mine, Charles Villiers. He was exploring digital image making and output in projection, web, and print. We went to great lengths, proofed in numerous art and photographic papers to make an archival print with color characteristics that would [...]

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Peter Devries WINS O’Neill Cold Water Classic

It’s not very often you witness a hero born, but today local surfer Peter Devries, of Tofino, won Canada’s first major surf competition in grand style.

Congratulations Peter, and sincere thanks to all who participated – it was interesting to see surfers contending with water much colder than they’ve used to.
Cold water surfing [...]

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P.R.A.S. – WAVE Art Show

Opening reception 7 p.m. on Monday the 26th, with beer & wine bar and live music.

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Ken Kirkby – A Painter’s Quest for Canada

A Painter’s Quest for Canada – Ken Kirkby

At this stage of my life all I wanted to do was go and live at my favourite place, a small village near a stream on the east coast of Vancouver Island. Most of all, I wanted to live an ordinary sort of life which had so [...]

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C’mon down to UKEE DAYS!

C’mon down to UKEE DAYS! – Fun for the whole family
Bullhorning, town crier style, in the morning is a tradition that goes way way back, as a kid I can remember being woken up way too early for a lazy summer day.
This year events included a wheel barrow race (replicating the [...]

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Pacific Rim Summer Festival

For 2 weeks (July 1st to July 15) Ucluelet and Tofino host a new event; Pacific Rim Summer Festival. Organized by the dynamos over at P.R.A.S (Pacific Rim Arts Society) the event has a list of local events featuring Music and Performance art. In our own Whiskey Dock way, we invited traveling street performers from [...]

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Canada Day in Ucluelet

Canada Day in Ucluelet is punctuated by fireworks at dusk in the harbour. It draws a crowd down to the Whiskey Dock.

The official ceremonies are conducted at the village green, and followed by live entertainment in the afternoon. This year Elgin with Pacific Rim Arts Society had a table featuring several [...]

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Edge to Edge Marathon

edge to edge marathon official site .

This year’s Edge to Edge Marathon was again a success.

I’ve always admired the marathon. Last year Danielle’s efforts really stepped up the profile of the event and this year, I have to admit I was wishing I’d signed up. The runners were well supported, the weather [...]

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About the Artists

I know and respect each of the artists represented in the gallery, some I have worked with for many years, others have come to know me recently, through the gallery. I try not to limit the works to any specific genre, scale or medium despite my own personal biases.

It’s an absolute pleasure to admire, [...]

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