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Black Tail on Stoney Hill
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Black Tail on Stoney Hill
$85.00 – $500.00Small island deer are everywhere on the southern forests of Vancouver Island. Stoney Hill Regional Park is a gem located between Maple Bay and Genoa Bay near Duncan. Spectacular arbutus and moss covered viewpoints abound. Well worth a visit. The deer are very aware over the ever-present cougars and so keep a pretty low profile. I came across this one in the interior of the park. This tree in the foreground is distinctive so you will recognize it if you explore this magical place.
artist: Bill Hibberd
region: South Island
closest community: Maple Bay
original medium: Oil$85.00 – $500.00
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Big Ol’ Barn
$85.00 – $505.00Big Ol’ Barn
$85.00 – $505.00This big old barn is a protected historical building in Burgoyne Bay Regional Park, Salt Spring Island. The park contains wooded Douglas-fir forests, threatened Garry oak trees, rocky shorelines, open grasslands, culturally significant sites (First Nation middens and gathering places), and a number of other old and historic farm buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. You will see this barn on the left as you drive along Burgoyne Bay Road. Park your car and enjoy a favourite island hike.
artist: Cathie Grindler
region: Gulf Islands
closest community: Salt Spring Island
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $505.00
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Century Sam Lake Approach
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Century Sam Lake Approach
$85.00 – $205.00From a hiking trip to Century Sam Lake, Strathcona Park. This stunning emerald lake is a well kept secret. The trail covers 400m of elevation over its 5km length.
artist: Brian Buckrell
region: North Island
closest community: Courtenay
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $205.00
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Avatar Grove
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Avatar Grove
$135.00 – $480.00The Avatar Grove is managed by the Ancient Forest Alliance and improvements of boardwalks and stairs have greatly improved the experience. There are lower and upper groves to wander through, the lower descending to the Gordon River. The road is basic logging road and can be filled with pot holes. The wonders of standing amongst these old giants in a real wilderness setting is certainly a tranquil experience.
artist: Dave Mann
region: South Island
closest community: Port Renfrew
original medium: Photo$135.00 – $480.00
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Grace Notes
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Grace Notes
$85.00 – $465.00This painting came about after listening to St Cecilia’s Mass while lying atop Anderson Hill watching birds swoop and clouds scud across the azure sky.
artist: Katherine Farris
region: Greater Victoria
closest community: Oak Bay
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $465.00
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Precarious Balance
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Precarious Balance
$85.00 – $205.00This collaged monoprint was inspired by many plein air sessions on the Nanaimo River. I love watching birds and am impressed by people who balance stones along the shore. It occurred to me that the stones could be a metaphor for human relationship to nature. It is clear that this beautiful and necessary balance is becoming more and more precarious. I hope this piece inspires others to consider their balance with nature.
artist: Josslyn Meyers
region: Central Island
closest community: Cassidy
original medium: Mixed media$85.00 – $205.00
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A Good Day For Ice Cream
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A Good Day For Ice Cream
$85.00 – $595.00The shape of this thickly padded rock near the edge of a cliff at Mt. Wells Regional Park made me think of an ice cream cone. The forests here are often messy in their natural state, so it’s nice when you can rest your eye on a simple shape.
artist: Greg Glover
region: Greater Victoria
closest community: Langford
original medium: Photo$85.00 – $595.00
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Mystic Beach Sunset
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Mystic Beach Sunset
$135.00 – $480.00Mystic Beach is a popular hike to see the waterfall and enjoy the scenic views. The trail is actually part of the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail so is fairly well maintained. On the walk to the beach you descend numerous stairs, but the hike is worth it. Taking photos of sunsets means hiking out in the dark wilderness!
artist: Dave Mann
region: South Island
closest community: Shirley
original medium: Photo$135.00 – $480.00
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The Wind Blows in All Directions on St John’s Point
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The Wind Blows in All Directions on St John’s Point
$130.00 – $595.00In 2017 the Mayne Island Conservancy was busy raising money to save Saint John’s Point from development. This painting is one that I did from sketches made on site, and proceeds from the sale of the original were donated to this cause. The Conservancy saved the Point, a magnificent stretch of Coastal Douglas Fir landscape and over 2 km of coastline.
artist: Joanne Thomson
region: Gulf Islands
closest community: Village Bay
original medium: Watercolour$130.00 – $595.00
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Somenos Marsh
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Somenos Marsh
$85.00 – $595.00I have always loved a good marsh, the sound of birds and life is comforting. And the Somenos Marsh Conservation Area is a really good marsh! It’s a globally significant Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), and an annual overwintering and feeding spot for waterfowl travelling the Pacific Flyway. Archaeological evidence shows the Cowichan people have occupied the lands in and around the marsh for at least 4,000 years.
artist: Cheryl Painter
region: South Island
closest community: Duncan
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $595.00
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Incoming Tide
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Incoming Tide
$85.00 – $465.00The west coast offers an endless variety of compositional possibilities to the artist. Botany Bay near Port Renfrew inspired this piece. I stood on the shore for hours absorbing the feeling of the place and the character of the elements. Small preliminary sketches begin my process. Back at my studio I composed this painting with the foreground rocks designed to represent the eroding yet steadfast island resisting the relentless seas.
artist: Bill Hibberd
region: Pacific Rim
closest community: Port Renfrew
original medium: Oil$85.00 – $465.00
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Golden Hinde
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Golden Hinde
$130.00 – $500.00There are so many mountains to climb here on the island and the Golden Hinde provides spectacular views. Often hikers will bare their backsides on The Golden Hinde because the next mountain in view is actually called The Behinde. The Golden Hinde is the highest peak on the island, and is located near the geographic centre of Vancouver Island, as well as near the centre of Strathcona Provincial Park.
artist: Anouk Hartwell
region: Central Island
closest community: Gold River
original medium: Acrylic$130.00 – $500.00
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Memories of Saturna II
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Memories of Saturna II
$85.00 – $595.00A magical wedding at East Point Park on Saturna Island prompted this painting. The light was so dazzling and the landscape so imbued with colour, it just cried out for a painting. East Point Park is now a part of the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, one of Canada’s newest national parks. The park protects a beautiful landscape of rocky headlands, forested hills and shorelines studded with colourful tidepools.
artist: Katherine Farris
region: Gulf Islands
closest community: Saturna Island
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $595.00
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Divine Composition
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Divine Composition
$85.00 – $595.00Being an artist means composing, designing or creating visual poetry but never replicating or transcribing. Leave that to the camera. Whistler was criticized in his day for saying that he rearranged his compositions because nature never got it right. BUT – this place, Little Qualicum Falls is perfect. There is nothing I could do to improve or enhance the scene. Magic!
artist: Bill Hibberd
region: Central Island
closest community: Qualicum Beach
original medium: Oil$85.00 – $595.00
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Glacier Alpine
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Glacier Alpine
$85.00 – $595.00This painting was inspired by the Comox Glacier and alpine meadow in Strathcona Provincial Park (the oldest park in BC).
artist: Darren Larose
region: Central Island
closest community: Comox Valley
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $595.00
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Schooner Cove, Tofino
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Schooner Cove, Tofino
$20.00 – $595.00Schooner Cove Beach in Pacific Rim National Park is a magnificent site for artists. It has what I call “lots of architecture”, rocky shores and headlands overhung with Cedar and Hemlock and also craggy outcrops that spring from the golden sands and become islands at high tide. It’s easy to get to along the Schooner Cove Trail.
artist: Channing Holland
region: Pacific Rim
closest community: Tofino
original medium: Acrylic$20.00 – $595.00
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Bald Eagle
$85.00 – $460.00Bald Eagle
$85.00 – $460.00Salt Spring is a fabulous place to bird watch, and great place to see raptors like the Bald Eagle, the Swainson’s Hawk and the Red Tailed Hawk.
artist: Douglas Penhale
region: Gulf Islands
closest community: Salt Spring Island
original medium: Illustration$85.00 – $460.00
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Standing Together
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Standing Together
$85.00 – $480.00I just love the mossy trunks of the old Maple trees. The trees are so big and have so much character, they are like people. This pair stand together, witnessing the world rushing by as they quietly and slowly grow
artist: Helen Utsal
region: Central Island
closest community: North Lazo
original medium: Oil$85.00 – $480.00
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Visions of Metchosin
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Visions of Metchosin
$85.00 – $465.00One summer day, we were walking along the coast in the breathtaking East Sooke Park, and I settled down to do a series of sketches of this beautiful rugged coastline. Windswept trees, rocky shores scattered with the long spirals of bull kelp, sun casting white across the ocean, islands peeping out like whales from the turquoise sea. It was a blissful landscape.
When I returned to my studio I fused the sketches into one painting.artist: GILLIAN REDWOOD
region: Greater Victoria
closest community: Metchosin
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $465.00
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Red Cedar
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Red Cedar
$130.00 – $595.00This is a cedar tree near Goldstream River, a magical place and a tiny remnant of the mighty forests that covered Vancouver Island. The old growth trees here are around 800 years old.
artist: Joanne Thomson
region: South Island
closest community: Langford
original medium: Watercolour$130.00 – $595.00
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Mossy Forest
$85.00 – $205.00Mossy Forest
$85.00 – $205.00“Mossy Forest” was inspired by the forests that surround Campbell River, including the incredible Elk Falls Park. The majestic trees covered with moss are a staple in the Vancouver Island landscape. You can feel the coolness of the greenery that reminds you of a walk in a forest. The sight of rotting logs and vegetation that sustains and maintains the forest life. Simply magical.
artist: Trish LaFrance
region: Central Island
closest community: Campbell River
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $205.00
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Red Tailed Hawk
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Red Tailed Hawk
$85.00 – $170.00Ooooh, raptors. Perhaps not the sweetest birds, but possibly the most exciting. They are fierce, and no nonsense. Raptors gotta eat! The call of the Red Tailed Hawk is often heard on the soundtrack of old movie westerns. Listen for them as you hike around this beautiful lake.
artist: Marsha Arbour
region: Greater Victoria
closest community: View Royal
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $170.00
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Forest Bathing
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Forest Bathing
$130.00 – $500.00The forest is a huge reason I moved to the island. That and the ocean. If ever I need a boost in my life I go into the forest to reset the ‘refresh’ button. Light can look different there, smells are earthy, sounds of the leaves in the wind are all soothing. My inspiration for this piece is the Upper Maple Syrup Trail on Maple Mountain.
artist: Anouk Hartwell
region: South Island
closest community: Maple Bay
original medium: Acrylic$130.00 – $500.00
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Pick up sticks
$85.00 – $115.00
Pick up sticks
$85.00 – $115.00Storms toss logs into a tangle along the shores of French Beach Provincial Park. This beautiful stretch of forested hiking trails, flat beaches and perfect picnic spots is an ideal location to keep an eye out for incredible wildlife. In the spring watch for migrating Gray whales. All year you can see resident killer whales, otters, seals, sea lions, Bald eagles, osprey and a variety of seabirds.
artist: Lorraine Whillans
region: South Island
closest community: Sooke
original medium: Watercolour$85.00 – $115.00
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Evening Surf
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Evening Surf
$85.00 – $225.00Impression of the evening surf in the Broken Group. The Broken Group is a group of small islands and islets in the middle of Barkley Sound. It is protected within the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Benson Island, on the northwest corner of the Broken Group, is an important cultural site for the Tseshaht First Nation.
artist: Brian Buckrell
region: Pacific Rim
closest community: Bamfield
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $225.00
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Paradise Meadows Boardwalk
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Paradise Meadows Boardwalk
$85.00 – $205.00“Paradise Meadows Boardwalk” was inspired by a trip to Mount Washington in the spring. It is a mountain ski village where a boardwalk has been built over the fragile vegetation in an area aptly named Paradise Meadows. The easy walk along the boardwalk is serene and relaxing as it meanders over the colorful flowers and passes peaceful ponds. It is also the gateway to the many hiking trails available in Strathcona Park.
artist: Trish LaFrance
region: Central Island
closest community: Courtenay
original medium: Acrylic$85.00 – $205.00
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Fisgard Lighthouse
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Fisgard Lighthouse
$85.00 – $595.00Since1860, Fisgard Lighthouse has served continuously as a beacon on Canada’s West Coast. Although still in operation, it also serves as a museum with interactive displays and vintage photographs. It occupies the same location as Fort Rodd Hill National Historic site – a beautiful park featuring acres of historical buildings and meadows overlooking Esquimalt Harbour.
artist: Carswell King
region: South Island
closest community: Colwood
original medium: Illustration$85.00 – $595.00
