Lighthouse Trail by Carole Finn
36″ x 48″ Acrylic on Canvas, framed
$5500
A distinct portion of the Wild Pacific Trail at Amphitrite Point (the very tip of Ucluelet’s Peninsula). The trees form a fantastic canopy overhead and glimpses of the pacific urge you to explore the trail further until you face the unbroken horizon of the open ocean and the lighthouse itself.
Wild Pacific Trail (Right Gulley) by Carole Finn
36″ x 60″ Acrylic on Canvas, framed
$6500
An impressionistic portrayal of the Wild Pacific Trail. Carole has been hard at work depicting the Trail in a series of large scale works. Here her attention is on the driftwood and debris that accumulates at the head of a local surge channel.
Released by Marla Thirsk
30″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$1500
Many Artists deal with dark inner subjects in their art, somehow they get released in the very act of creating art. Marla has freed herself from the inner ‘demons’ that a very tortured relationship with her mother had created. Released is an exciting addition to this series of paintings, despite the dark source of inspiration in the artists experience.
Access Denied by Marla Thirsk
30″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas
$1500
“Access Denied – She never let me in, and I didn’t let her in either.” says Marla about this painting.
I feel as though we’ve been invited to get to know a side of Marla through these paintings, as side she’d never be able to explain in words.
Sooke Fine Arts Society has an annual art show consisting of works by hundreds of area artists and is attended by more than 7000 visitors each year. This year the event runs from July 24th ’til August 2nd. Regionally, it’s a fairly high profile event.
It’s jurored by Jeffrey Spalding the President of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, John Luna a Painter, Writer, Curator, and instructor at Vancouver Island School of Art and UVic as well as Diane Farris a noted curator and owner of Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver.
I’m pleased to report that Ucluelet’s own Marla Thirsk has been selected for the Juror’s Choice Award (sponsored by the Sooke Community Arts Council) for her recent portrait ‘Disconnect‘.
Marla’s works can be viewed here at Mark Penney Gallery in Ucluelet and also at Cedar Corner Gallery in Tofino.
I’ve just posted the official video from MLA Scott Fraser’s Legislative Address to canadarides.ca, I thought it might be of interest here also.
