Vancouver Island scenes depicted in watercolor by Linda Heslop and photographs of the places we visit via the logging roads on Vancouver Island. Beaches, stones, waves and caving images done by Linda Heslop in watercolor, oil and acrylic paints as well as pen and ink. Some logging photographs and links to videos.
This image of a Japanese concrete casting is called 'Knowledge', the exact meaning of the inscription apparently does not translate well into English but roughly says something along the line of We already have everything. If anyone can shed better light on the translation please make a comment.
Linda Heslop painted this in acrylic on canvas several years ago, a similar watercolor but with the casting set on a background of stones and pebbles had been painted prior to this. The casting resides in our garden.
Linda Heslop painted this large triptych seascape in acrylic and oil on 3 canvas boards, it is called 'Arrival'. The original image has a sale pending but is also available as a giclee print available from Full Circle Studio Arts. A typical view of the westcoast of Vancouver Island from the Long Beach area.
This watercolor by artist Linda Heslop is called 'Abundance'. Easy to see why eh? There's pebbles, stones and small rocks all depicted in photo-realistic fashion. Count 'em if you can ;-)
Linda Heslop was born into a creative environment and spent her early years encouraged and tutored by her artist/architect father.
Working as a freelance illustrator, for many years she designed logos and illustrated numerous magazines and books internationally, including her own book "The Art of Caving". Linda is an outdoor enthusiast having spent decades in cave exploration and surveying in remote areas in Canada and the U.S.
Her true love is Vancouver Island, where she lives, and it is this island, it's shores in particular, which inspire almost all of her work. An interest in geology and its shaping by time is expressed in her many intricate depictions of beach stones. A passion for biology is reflected in her intertidal paintings. It is "the utter joy of being there" that she aims to capture and in doing so hopes to instill the need for preservation of this unique and beautiful place.
She works in watercolor, oil, acrylic, pencil and ink and is represented by Canadian Art Connections who produce and distribute reproductions of her works on both paper and canvas.
And as for the title, well, she ain't in it for the money, artists do it for the love of it. (But lucrative offers will be gratefully accepted!!)
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