Giclee Print on Canvas
Printed locally in the beautiful Comox Valley on acid free museum quality canvas, hand wrapped with care, and UV clear coated to keep your colours vibrant for 150+ years.
Custom Framing
All custom wood frames are lovingly hand made from salvaged wood found locally in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Driftwood is gathered from beaches, dried and milled, and Red Cedar is hand picked from waste piles at a local Cedar mill.
The West Coast Story
The Nuchatlitz.. known for its hidden bays teeming with wildlife, mind-blowing sunsets and sacred burial sites, is a sea kayakers dreamland. This isolated group of islands is a provincial marine park and home to one of the largest populations of sea otters on the West Coast. In the summer months hundreds of otters come together to forage in these calm waters, forming massive floating rafts. Hidden from civilization, this unique corner of the coast is only a half day paddle down winding inlets from the small forestry town of Zeballos. It is a place that is very sacred to the Nuu-chah-nulth indigenous populations whose ancestors are buried in a number of caves on outlying islands. Whales, porpoises, and sea lions play in the protected coves and channels. Vivid sunsets melt into starry nights and glowing phosphorescence covers the shores. The Nuchatlitz was one of the first places where I travelled upon returning to Canada after backpacking overseas for two years, and it has since inspired me like no other place. This painting is of one particular sunset, which lasted for well over an hour. I sat on the rocky shore of an island with a few bald eagles and watched one of the most incredible displays of colour I have ever witnessed. Beds of kelp shone black over a painted ocean that mirrored the heavens.