My friend Brian Coxford inspired this little painting. As many artists will tell you, they’re often approached by folks saying “you should paint this”. A lot of us artists resist those suggestions simply because we don’t relate to the image at a personal or experiential level. I seldom succumb to the suggestion made by others. My wife Joy is the one exception. She seems to have the eye that resonates with me, and quite often she’s been the one to find an image that translates into a painting I can pursue.
In this case, Brian had found an image from up in the Sooke area on Vancouver Island, and he’d sent it my way with the inevitable “You should paint this”. Searching for an image to paint, my first of 2024, eventually I took the photograph Brian had suggested and began working on it. When the painting was done, no story had come to me. The painting sat on an easel in my living room for weeks. The image remained untitled. The spirit and energy of my paintings is found in the story. And to this point in time, the story just hadn’t come to me.
Then, one morning in early February, the rising sun brilliantly flooded my living room, and washed over the little unnamed painting on the easel. And it was that light that gave me the title. I suspect the Sooke photograph is one of a sunset, but on that early February morning in my living room, the title and story became a reality. That little painting of the photograph Brian had sent to me had its name, and that name reflects the very moment the image came to life. It was born in the “Morning Light”.
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.
