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.
Long Beach by Ken Kirkby
24″x48″ Oils on Canvas
$3000
A view of Long Beach, as seen by Ken Kirkby. The scene is completed by a singular tree silhouetted against the bright summer surf line.
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.
The Surf Line by Bruce Muir
24″x30″ Oils on Canvas
$2900
This is the type of scene that Bruce Muir is known for; emotive over and under portraits of wildlife in the pacific. There are several types of Killer Whales (Orca). Some eat only salmon, others specialize in hunting in-shore marine mammals and yet another group are known to hunt other whales. It was this remarkable hunting strategy that led to the nickname ‘Killer Whales’. A fourth type has recently been identified roaming way off-shore.
Native lore is highly observant of these creatures and their behavior; describing them as ‘Wolves of the Sea’. Indeed, an Orca pod’s pack hunting skills and social structure is in fact remarkably like Wolves.
