This painting is called "pretty little liar" completed in 2024, acrylic on canvas. Utilizing the pop art style to illustrate the corruption in the highest forms of govt within Canadian politics. I imagine scores of freedom fighters wearing this to protest for our medical autonomy, our freedom and the rampant corruption.
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canada, canadian, corruption, freedom fighter, freedom for all
lord of the north is originally a large scale painting done in acrylic on canvas. Enjoy a tshirt or other fun merch with this design from Canadian Artist Stephanie Perry.
Magpie pair in a cherry tree. Originally entitled "what's mine is yours" and oil on canvas. This painting is about the mated magpie pair that returns every spring to decimate my neighbors cherries.
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tree, birding, cherry blossom, bird, cherry tree
This was part of a series of 2, a visual commentary about the diminishing numbers of spawning salmon in the Fraser River in interior BC as well as the coast of BC that was leaving bears and other animals starving and hungry looking for their regular food source.
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salmon run, spawning ground, black bears, river, salmon
During a trip to my home town of Port Hardy BC on Vancouver island, i made time to do several plien air paintings (painting outside). This beach is in the main village next to the first nations reserve. Capturing home in paint was like taking a photograph but better, it was like I was capturing the essence of a place and its ever changing tides.
A microcosm of a familiar place where I grew up on Vancouver island.
This painting is titled "the sinews of the earth hold up the moon". 2020 and the original was acrylic on birch panel.
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beach, nature, driftwood, snail lover, shell
I created this piece in response to the news that someone I knew from my younger years on Vancouver island was battling terminal cancer. I contacted his family to ask what his spirit animal might be and was told that he repeatedly loved to draw humpbacks. This made the image of the humpback being an island come to mind immediately, like he represented the stability and structure of their family. I researched homes on stilts at that point and found many great images of homes that were colorful and barn like to the east coast of Canada. I felt like the home he would choose to be would be one of color and uniqueness and the perfect place for an artist.
during a trip up to the northern most tip of Vancouver island, where i grew up, i decided to do some plien air ( painting outdoors) studies of the places that I most loved when I was a child. This is a beach that is on the first nations reserve in my village. The boat has been abandoned there for many years and has almost become part of the landscape.
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british columbia, vancouver, nautical, vancouver island, boat
This work in about the cycle of life that occurs after the salmon spawn each year. The reference image I used was taken by myself in Squamish BC at the Stawamis River that flows at the foot of the Stawamis Chief Mountain. Although beautiful and tragic, salmon returning to the river beds of their birth to leave their own off spring which is followed by their own deaths, it is a symbol of the sacrifice they make to health of the forest and its other creatures. Their long journey home that is rife with struggle and dangerous difficulties, yet, as they exit the world they give their nutrients to the forest floor and to the river itself, as well as bears, carrion birds and other scavengers that feed off of their carcasses. Nothing embodies th
Although satirical “Catigula” is a piece that illustrates the current state of leadership in our own and many other close neighboring countries. A cat perfectly depicts the nature of those in power and how a truly self-interested person is often in control over the many.
"I am the calm in the storm" 2020 acrylic on canvas 12"x12"...I was feeling experimental and got crazy with the palette knife. literally feels like you could cut the tension in the air with a knife.
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snowy owl, owl design, barn owl, birds illustration, owl
“I Live Under The Stars” 2020, is originally Acrylic on Canvas.
Canadian Caribou have been classified as "vulnerable" in 2015 due to an observed population decline of 40 per cent over the last 25 years. Most of the decline has been blamed on human activity that has destroyed habitat and pushed them to the brink of extinction. When I paint I often am inspired by the beauty of our Distinctly Canadian Wildlife with an emphasis on endangered species that once were plentiful on this continent.
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reindeer, cariboo country outdoors, christmas, xmas, santa
Part of my mythical motherhood series, Mermother and child swim around eachother in a pisces like configuration illustrating the ying and yang of mother and child, the complete circle.