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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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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Bruce Muir · Barkley Sound

Barkley Sound by Bruce Muir
8″x 10″ acrylic on board, framed.
$800

The coastline and reefs in Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, are amongst the most beautiful parts of British Columbia. Bruce Muir makes painting this area seem effortless, while many painters struggle to capture their [...]

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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 – 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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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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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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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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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

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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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Colin T Bell – New Website and New Works

Artist, Colin T Bell is glad to have a website of his own to showcase his work on-line.

His new website www.colinbellart.com has recently been launched. A fellow-member of the Calgary Artists’ Society recommended an artist specific web service, and it seems it was a good fit. It’s a modest start of just a [...]

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Charles Amherst Villiers – The Man Who Supercharged Bond

“Paul should be congratulated on a book which gives an authoritative, overdue account of an extraordinary man.” ~ Lord Montigue of Beaulieu (in the forward of ‘The Man Who Supercharged Bond’, a biography of Amherst Villiers authored by Paul Kenny)

The extraordinary story of artist Charles Churchill Villiers’ father Charles Amherst Villiers has [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Island Reflections

Island Reflections by Ken Kirkby
36″x36″ Oil on Canvas
sold (private collection)

Ken puts forth a very refined graphic style. He’s a very accomplished painter by any measure. His works feature a stillness that I’d be tempted to compare to canadian realists such as Christopher Pratt or Alex Colville.

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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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Marla Thirsk

Marla Thirsk was born in Vancouver, B.C. and showed an early apptitude for art by drawing in the cover pages of her father’s university books at the age of 2. She went on from there winning the “Art in the Parks” award at 11 and being displayed in the Vancouver Art Gallery. Although she [...]

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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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