For over 30 years, this little island has caught my attention. I knew I had to paint it. I just didn’t know how.
Early in 2019 my wife Joy and I went for a walk in Smuggler Cove Provincial Park. It was a glorious sunny day and we just had to get out. The further up the Sunshine Coast we drove, the more the fog was evident out over the Salish Sea. Its whimsical fingers reached into the bays and coves at random. The closer we got to Plumper Cove, the more we realized we might not get the sunshine we’d anticipated.
Little did I know though that the fog would finally show me how to paint the island that had always intrigued me yet eluded my artistic eye. Virtually every time I’d seen this island, with its two proud arbutus trees making their colourful presence known, the tight confines of the little bay had somehow restricted the composition. The backdrop, every bit as beautiful as the island itself, had been just too “busy” for my eye as a painter. The fog on this day however had provided the perfect stage for the little island. As the fog shrouded virtually everything else with its cool grey curtain, the sun breaking through acted as a spotlight on my little island. It had its solitary moment in the sun, and the painting that would be came into focus.
Such serendipitous windows of opportunity are short and fleeting, but the fog allowed the island and the artist to be together at just the right moment in time. And now, I will forever know that little island as my “Island In The Sun”.
Pricing
My images predominantly sell as limited edition prints (either serigraph or giclée). As such, there is a wide range of pricing, too wide to list within this website. I’ll explain.
My original paintings, those that are still available for sale, range in price from $4,000.00 and up. In most cases though I have limited edition prints available of my images. Needless to say, they are far less expensive than the original paintings. If you are interested in a particular original painting, please contact me at your earliest convenience at info@edhillart.com
If it’s a limited edition print you’re interested in, let me explain. Because of modern day technologies, the image you are interested in can be giclée printed on either paper or canvas. The canvas images can be rolled up and shipped in a simple tube, or they can be stretched on a frame and shipped that way. So too, these images can be reproduced custom made to your wishes. In other words I can create a print in the size you desire, either to fill a small space, or to fill an entire wall. I’ve included below a photograph of a client’s dining room with two of my prints reproduced in a larger format.
You will see that some of my pieces shown on this web site, those lithograph reproductions and art cards, do have fixed prices. The rest of my images, however, can be priced only when I know specifically what you, the client, want. As such, if you are interested in a particular image, please contact me, Ed Hill, directly at info@edhillart.com
Once your order has been determined, you’ll be able to make payment through PayPal provided herein.
