5 Reasons To Skip Tofino & Head For Ucluelet

In an article posted by Mara Gulens on AOL Travel :

5 Reasons to Skip Tofino & Head for Ucluelet on Vancouver Island.

 Whiskey Landing houses Mark Penney’s eye-popping art gallery – signs Ukee is up-and-coming. And the excellent dinner at Norwoods Restaurant made me swear never to say good food and [...]

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Ron Smid · Canada the Light on Our Land

Large Format Photographer, Ron Smid has put together an extraordinary photo book (it’s available on-line at blurb.com).

I’m currently showing Ron’s breath-taking photos at the Gallery.
Have a look at the full preview of his Book and his [...]

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Mark Penney · A Place to Find Yourself · Photobook

An exciting 80 page photobook containing 135 color photos. See Ucluelet through the eyes of Mark Penney.

It’s available in 2 versions; a sharp looking softcover for $50 and a luxurious hardcover version at $85.

Ron Smid · The Arch

The Arch by Ron Smid
30″x40″ 10/25 LE Cibachrome Print
$3200

Tickle Cove, Newfoundland looks surprisingly like rocky parts of the west coast Vancouver Island. This stone arch is iconic – and anyone who has held a camera will tell you this is an exceptional photo. Ron takes extreme measures to capture breathtaking [...]

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Ron Smid · Lake Louise

Lake Louise by Ron Smid
30″x40″ 21/25 LE Cibachrome Print
$4200

Many people have stood exactly where this photo was taken, few took an image like this with them. This is an iconic spot at Lake Louise, the glacial water is a remarkable icy blue.

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Ron Smid · Wings of Light

Wings of Light by Ron Smid
30″x40″ 5/25 LE Cibachrome Print
$2900

For years after falling in love with photography and before my passion for capturing Canada’s natural landscapes on film turned into a full time career, I intensely studied thousands of images from scores of books in hope of unlocking the secret [...]

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Ron Smid · Georgian Bay

Georgian Bay by Ron Smid
30″x40″ 11/25 LE Cibachrome Print
$3500

There is no landscape in Canada more influential in my development as a photographic artist than the Thirty Thousand Islands of Georgian Bay. Shaped from the receding glaciers during the last ice age, the epitome of Canada’s magnificent natural landscape was [...]

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Ron Smid

A passion for light and land coupled with intense personal vision is the formula behind the extraordinary nature photography of Ron Smid.

Inspired by the work of great landscape photographers of past and present, Smid set out in his early twenties to forge his own unique photographic style with the wild expanse [...]

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Ucluelet – En Route Magazine

The September issue of En Route Magazine features 2 articles profiling Ucluelet, and a photo by Mark Penney.

One day in Ukee and we’re starting to think artistic talent blows in from the sea. Just walk down to Whiskey Landing – the building itself is a work [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer · Ocean Adventure

Ocean Adventure by Nigel Brooks Peer
Photograph
Matted / Framed 21″ x 25″ .
(sold) private collection

This is an image made by exposing overlapping negatives, the individual images intermix to create a new one. This reclining couple appear as watery reflections over the anemones in the overlapping photo.

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Nigel Brooks Peer · Crystal Form

Crystal Form by Nigel Brooks Peer
Photograph
Matted / Framed 21″ x 25″
(sold) private collection

This is an image made by exposing overlapping negatives, the individual images intermix to create a new one. Crystals forming in a Himalayan stream the nude figure overlaps almost as a reflection on the surface of [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer · When We First Met

When We First Met by Nigel Brooks Peer
Photograph
Matted / Framed 25″ x 21″
(sold) private collection

This is an image made by exposing overlapping negatives, the individual images intermix to create a new one.

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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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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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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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Mark Penney · Wild Pacific Trail

Wild Pacific trail – Mark Penney
20″x34″ photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas, gallery wrapped on cedar stretchers.
sold (coast guard)

The trail is a major attraction in Ucluelet, I find it intriguing how it dramatically it changes from hour to hour, day to day – each visit reveals new views of [...]

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Mark Penney · When the Storm Breaks

When The Storm Breaks – Mark Penney
20″x34″ photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas, gallery wrapped on cedar stretchers.
sold (private collection)
These are times when the storm has broken and the clear sky and still air is at total contrast to the heavy seas. For a while the offshore swells [...]

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Mark Penney · Wikaninish Reflections

Wikaninish Reflections – Mark Penney
20″x34″ Photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas.
(sold) private collection

The Wik, is a great place to spend a sunny afternoon. Each beach in the area has it’s own distinct feel, and the wik is a friendly place that accommodates a large number of people without feeling [...]

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Mark Penney · Sea Foam Green

Sea Foam Green – Mark Penney
20″x34″ Photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas.
sold (private collection)
Sea foam is formed when the waves are whipped and churned by the winds, it blows like soap bubbles on the breeze.

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Mark Penney · Big Green One

Big green One – Mark Penney
20″x34″ Photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas.
(sold) ‘drunken grip’ collection

Wave studies are popular and after a few days’ blow there is a window of opportunity to photograph the seas. These are local coastal scenes; they’re printed on certified archival canvas, coated with a liquid [...]

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Mark Penney · Big Beach at Dusk

Big Beach at Dusk by Mark Penney
20″x34″ Photographic print (giclee) on archival canvas.
(sold) private collection

These are local coastal scenes; they’re printed on certified archival canvas, coated with a liquid acrylic laminate then stretched onto custom cedar stretchers. They’re lightfast and water resistant.
Big Beach is right at the [...]

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Rob Elphinstone – International Peace Art Exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey

Nanaimo Artist, Rob Elphinstone, Contributes to International Peace Art Exhibition at Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, Turkey

“The Worldwide Artists for Peace International Art Action Project” was created in February 2008 as an artist initiative.

İSTANBUL, a city connecting two old continents with its wide cultural mosaics, has been chosen as the first art action exhibition [...]

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West Coast Wild – Flight Seeing

I had the opportunity to fly with ‘Crazy Louis’ of West Coast Wild Adventures; he runs a charter flight service from Whiskey Landing, offering short flights and tours with his Cessna 180.

I’ve spent a lot of time on the Ucluelet area but almost none of it in the air.  Seeing the broken group [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer – Photographic Prints

Photographic Prints – Nigel Brooks Peer

These fascinating images are created the hard way, in the darkroom with overlapping negatives, hand exposed on photographic paper. Nigel has traveled extensively to more than 50 countries, collecting candid portraits and culturally relevant images. He juxtaposes the images together in ways that sometimes result in harmonies and sometimes [...]

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Rob Elphinstone · Long Beach

Long Beach by Rob Elphinstone

Oils on Canvas
11″x20″ (framed)
sold (private collection)

An actualist painting depicts the portion of an image that cannot be captured by photography, the emotive qualities of the scene. Wildly colored and heavily textured impasto is a signature of this widley appreciated artist.

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Juicy Looking Giclee Prints

The first print-job with the new Breathing Color Lyve canvas is complete. I got a profile from tech support ( I didn’t see any Lyve profiles posted online yet). They offer a custom profile service, very impressive although I usually make my own.

I’m impressed with the canvas, the weave looks similar to PremierArt’s water [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer

Living in the Tofino , Ucluelet area, represented by Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet Nigel brooks Peer has recently been recognized by National Geographic.

www.nigelbrookspeer.com nigelbrookspeer@gmail.com

Throughout my life, I’ve been a free thinker and traveller, who passionately expresses through mixed media arts. I’ve explored the world for years, getting in touch [...]

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Ucluelet Aquarium

Right next door to Whiskey Landing is the Ucluelet Aquarium. I highly recommend it, especially if you’re traveling with children. It’s full of touch tanks and has an amazing array of local sea life. Dave and the staff there are friendly, knowledgeable and great with children (and tourists).

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Richard Hoedl

Richard Hoedl is by all measure a talented west coast artist, who creates original hand-painted oil paintings inspired by Canadian landscapes. He uses exceedingly fine materials including walnut oil based paint.

Richard is both academically trained and self-taught through years of personal creativity and development. He is currently gallery represented on both coasts and [...]

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Mark Penney · Black and White Photography

A client in Victoria has selected a number of images to be printed on canvas in assorted sizes, to be featured in their luxury rental condo. The prints are being gallery wrapped and lacquered, framing won’t be required. Soon after this initial order is filled I’ll be releasing a group of Limited Edition prints.

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Nigel Brooks Peer · Cubist Photo-Realism

Cubist Photo-Realism and by Nigel Brooks Peer
20″x30″ Archival Print on Canvas.

This image is one singular image, it’s a straight photo, un-manipulated.
It expresses Nigel’s fascination with reflections and contains within it the essence of what he strives to create in his artwork. Layers of reflections, in a perspective encapsulating the [...]

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Nigel Brooks Peer · Terracotta Warriors and Stonehenge

Terracotta Warriors and Stonehenge by Nigel Brooks Peer
20″x30″ Giclee on Canvas.
$500

This image is comprised of 2 source images; one of Stonehenge ( Wiltshire, England ) and one of the Terracotta Warrior statues ( Xian, Shaanxi Province, China ). Nigel is extensively well traveled, and he develops his art from hand [...]

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