Ken Kirkby · Along the Way

Along the Way by Ken Kirkby
30″x60″
Oils on Canvas
$5000

Scale plays an important role in this painting it’s a stunning big sky coastal view. Anyone traveling along coastal BC by water has experienced this type of scene as the weather shifts and the sky brightens.

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Joan Larson · Pacific Sunset

Pacific Sunset by Joan Larson
32″ x 23″ Pastel, framed.
$5500

This large scale pastel by Joan Larson captures the beauty of the west coast of Vancouver Island.

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Joan Larson · Breaking the Ice

Breaking the Ice by Joan Larson
14 1/2″ x 19 1/2″ pastel illustration, framed
$2590

The fresh water that flows from the creeks onto the salt water at Pachina Bay forms a skiff of ice as it freezes… very small waves break the thin ice, forming a pattern as the tide recedes.

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Ken Kirkby · Pacific Wave Study

Pacifc Wave Study by Ken Kirkby
18″x36″ Oils on Canvas
$2500

This painting studies the shape of the waves breaking on the beach. It’s well executed with a minimal color palette and up close it shows the flat refinements of Kirkby’s realism. Standing back with a longer viewing distance the painting snaps into [...]

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Joan Larson · Botanical Beach

Botanical Beach by Joan Larson
12″x16″ pastel illustration, framed
$1800

Deep blues of the foreshore contrast with the rocks. It’s a favorite piece amongst people who have spent some time on the rocky intertidal beaches of the island’s west coast.

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Richard Hoedl · Path to Unknown

Path to Unknown by Richard Hoedl
36″x48″ Oils on Canvas
$4525
This painting depicts the path to Florencia Bay, on the day Richard sketched it out; I wanted to photograph the beaches distinct rocks at the base of the bluffs. The other artists in the group were fast to climb down the [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Old Paint

Old Paint by Ken Kirkby
36″x48″ Oil on Canvas
$3700
This painting is of a gillnet boat out of water, in the cradle of the ‘ways’. It looks like she’s about to receive the care she’s badly in need of. Well rendered, it still retains the simplistic graphic character of Kirkby’s realism.

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Ken Kirkby · At Peace, Spider Lake

At Peace, Spider Lake by Ken Kirkby
60″x30″ Oils on Canvas
sold (private collection)

This tall painting has all of the signature elements of a Kirkby’s lake-side paintings, grass, rocks, the tranquil reflection of the lake, but in this example Ken has rendered the detail on the tree trunk where the light strikes [...]

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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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Richard Hoedl · Making Space

Making Space by Richard Hoedl

48″x10″ Oils on Canvas

$1257

The west coast is known for amazing trees. Towering trees are perfect for a tall narrow space. Richard’s signature style of wrapping the image around the edges of the painting make this piece almost sculptural.

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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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Kirkby – Larson | Two Artists, One Community, One Country.

PRESS RELEASE – ( For Immediate Release )

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What do Art and Science have in common? If you visit Ucluelet between Saturday, October 16th, 2 pm [...]

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Katsumi Kimoto · Phosphorescence

Phosphorescence by Katsumi Kimoto
24″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$1000

Phosphorescence is best observed when the water is disturbed at night. There’s a green light emitted that originates at the source of the disturbance and trails through the water in a glittering tail. Katsumi Kimoto’s stylized and abstracted painting of this phenomenon utilizes a [...]

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Katsumi Kimoto · Summer Field

Summer Field by Katsumi Kimoto
24″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$2500

While still somewhat abstracted, this painting crosses into the field of representational art. Clearly this is a painting of summer sun, of wild flowers. Katsumi captures nature’s vibrant display as effortlessly as he catches the eye of the casual art viewer. It’s fresh [...]

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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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Ken Kirkby · Lakeside (Sunrise)

Lakeside (Sunrise) by Ken Kirkby
36″x36″ Oils on Canvas
sold (private collection)

A beautifully tranquil lake ringed by rocks, catching the early morning light. The windswept trees draw your gaze upward over the smooth gradation of colors. There’s a lot going on in this painting, and it’s been getting a lot of attention [...]

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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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Ken Kirkby · Long Beach Dreams

Long Beach Dreams by Ken Kirkby
30″x48″ Oils on Canvas
sold (private collection)

None of Ken’s signature elements are present in this painting: no sgraffito grass, no rocks, no silhouettes of trees with pointillist coloring. This painting captures the very essence of Long Beach. There is a sensitivity in the coloring, and Kirkby’s [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Long Beach View

Long Beach View by Ken Kirkby
24″x48″ Oils on Canvas
sold (private collection)

Long Beach as seen by Ken Kirkby. This is the first time Ken has painted the ocean in this particular way. The distinctly wind blown tree and rocks appear in his signature style but this painting captures the airy quality [...]

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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 – the Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition Finalist

The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition has recognized Marla Thirsks’ portrait Disconnect. The portrait and figure entries were judged on expressiveness, personality and draftsmanship. The portrait  category juror; Sharon Sprung teaches at the Art Students League and the National Academy’s School of Fine Arts in New York City; she has hosted two films on [...]

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Bruce Muir · The Surf Line

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 [...]

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Joan Larson · Kenendy Lake Drive

Kennedy Lake Drive by Joan Larson
Pastel
12″x18″ framed
$1800

An inspired view of the road winding past Kennedy Lake. Anyone driving highway 4 west of Port Alberni will recall breathtaking scenery, those memories are usually accompanied by an experience of holding their breath also. Almost any point along the way is [...]

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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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Ken Kirkby · Cameron Lake View

Cameron Lake View by Ken Kirkby
30″ x 60″ Oil on Canvas
(sold) Coulson Collection

Cameron Lake is a deep cold lake located next to Cathedral Grove between Port Alberni and Coombs. The Lake was named after the first Chief Justice of Vancouver Island, David Cameron.

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Ken Kirkby · Squall

Squall by Ken Kirkby
30″x 60″ oils on canvas
sold (private collection)

The sudden change in the sky, is the focus of several of Ken’s recent paintings. Vancouver Island is known for it’s many different micro climates and most areas are in a state of constant change of weather.

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Bruce Muir · West Coast Halibut

West Coast Halibut by Bruce Muir
16″x20″ Oil on canvas
$1800 (shown framed)

This is the very first painting, that I can recall seeing, depicting a halibut.
Halibut themselves are a remarkable species of fish, as a juvenile fish one eye migrates to join the other on the upward camouflaged side of [...]

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Marla Thirsk · Catch of the Day

Catch of the Day by Marla Thirsk
30″x36″ acrylic on canvas
$1500

There’s something very playful about this portrait of Rita, She’s out of the deck chair and heading out fishing. Here on the west coast it doesn’t take much to convince someone it’s a good time to go fishing.

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Marla Thirsk – Ugly Monkey

Ugly Monkey by Marla Thirsk
30″ x 36″ Acrylics on Canvas
$1500

The lipstick that defined a glamorous era. Another compelling portrait…. doesn’t everyone remember their childhood toys?

In the painting you see a stuffed monkey doll. I got one for Christmas from my brother and I LOVED [...]

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Ken Kirkby · Trees in the Inlet

Trees in the Inlet by Ken Kirkby
30″x40″ oils on canvas
(sold) private collection

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Ken Kirkby · After the Squall

After the Squall by Ken Kirkby
30″x60″ oils on canvas
(sold) private collection

This is the moment when a squall has broken and the first rays of sunlight penetrate the dark stormy clouds. The highlights on the rocks are glowing in contrast to the deep blue sky.

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