Ken Kirkby · Eagle Approaches

Eagle Approaches by Ken Kirkby
22″x28″
Oils on Canvas
$1500

The Eagle Transformation Mask opens to reveal it inner being, dancing as the Canoe approaches. Ken paints Robert Davidson’s Mask in true Kirkby style. I’m stunned by the presence this image has.
To see a great mask danced is a very [...]

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Ken Kirkby · The Wedding Party

The Wedding Party by Ken Kirkby
35.5″x48″
Oils on Canvas
$5000

An amazing Canadian cultural treasure; a scene from the traditional wedding of legendary native artist Robert Davidson. The Eagle Transformation and the Eagle Spirit Masks depicted in this painting are amongst the best known works by Davidson.

When I first saw [...]

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Katsumi Kimoto · Killer Whale II

Killer Whale II by Katsumi Kimoto
27″x35″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2700

I was very pleased when Katsumi agreed to hang some work in his home town of Ucluelet, I’ve long admired his bold colorful abstracted paintings… I find his use of gloss; varnishing heavily with acrylic paint body refreshing. His painting are color [...]

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Things to Do and See while visiting Ucluelet, BC

Ucluelet is a fantastic place to visit, and every day I’m asked about things to do and see in Ucluelet. Here is a list (in no particular order).

1 Visit the Art Galleries; Mark Penney Gallery is certainly the finest art gallery in the Pacific Rim… don’t believe me? I invite you to visit [...]

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Terry Jackson – Salmon Child

Salmon Child by Terry Jackson
Slip-Cast Porcelain Vessel 9″x4.5″x10″
$140

The idea of the Salmon Child comes from the old Northwest Coast stories about salmon who were really human beings wearing fish clothes. Many traditions were built around the salmon, and the first one caught as it returned from it’s four [...]

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Terry Jackson – Complete World II

Complete World II by Terry Jackson
Slip-Cast Porcelain Vessel 9″x4″x10.5″
$160

In this piece I express my love of the earth by bringing together the entire world, with it’s swirling weather systems and interaction of the elements.This shows my deep interest in scroll and spiral forms. To myself, the introduction of [...]

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Terry Jackson · Eagle, Beaver Kit

Eagle, Beaver Kit by Terry Jackson
Slip-Cast Porcelain Vessel 6.5″x4.5″x8″
$170

This double vase displays on one side a young eaglet, while the other shows a beaver baby, or ‘kit’. it is enjoyable to watch all young animals as they grow and learn.
On the Kettle rive here, the beavers swim [...]

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Ken Kirkby

As a child in Europe, Ken Kirkby chose painting as his life’s work, forsaking formal education for the passion of creation. Arriving in Canada in 1958, he quickly made his way north. Five years living among Inuit, traveling with Canada’s native people, enthralled by the environment.
Returning from the north, Kirkby settled in British [...]

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Charles Villiers

Charles Churchill Villiers was born in New York in 1951, son of the noted inventor Amherst Villiers.

His father, who had designed the Blower Bentley in the 1920’s, was President of the American Rocket Society, helped develop Sir Malcolm Campbell’s “Campbell-Napier Blue Bird’, and was also himself a portrait painter of significance.

Charles from [...]

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Jeff Edwards

Jeff Edwards is a sculptor who lives and works in Ucluelet on Vancouver Island’s west coast. He is a native of B.C. with roots tracing back to Europe. He is also a commercial fisherman from a long line of fisherman on his father’s side stretching to Nfld. Many of his sculptures reflect his ocean [...]

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Terry Jackson

In Jingdezhen, China proper, Canadian Native Artist Terry Jackson hired Yaosheng Ceramics to produce his signature line of cast porcelain vessels. With help from Artist and Painter-President Thomas Leung, Terry translated the level of standards he expected the final product to be, ensuring the quality the finished pieces.

Yaosheng Ceramics is a leading producer of high-quality [...]

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Cedar House Gallery | Native Art in Ucluelet

Huu-Mees Ma-as or Cedar House Gallery is our next door neighbor, and I’ve recently built a wordpress based website for them. www.nativeartcedarhouse.com.

I do recommend this gallery while visiting Whiskey Landing and I highly recommend them online also. artists represented include; Patrick Amos, Mark Mickey, Cliff George, Stan Thompson. They have [...]

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