It came in with a vengeance, a cruel and harsh arrival – that January of 2019. The winter’s cold, unsympathetic winds blew in from the mountains in an uncharacteristic bravado of nature’s wrath. The Sunshine Coast was simply cold. And we’re not used to that.
In over 20 year’s of winter paddling of big ocean-going canoes here on the Sunshine Coast, the first few weeks of 2019 have been without doubt the worst of the bunch. We just haven’t been able to get out on the water. And then one morning we woke to snow, a blanket of powder so crisp and fresh that even a snowman wasn’t possible. You can’t make a snowman out of dry powder.
I had to find a painting to remember this auspicious birth of 2019, but look as I might the painting just didn’t make itself evident. And then, the painting came to me. My friend Catherine Esson and her husband Dave live in Roberts Creek right on the ocean, virtually at the mouth of Roberts Creek. At coffee one day she showed me a photograph of the old rowboat in her yard. Snuggled in the fresh, undisturbed blanket of snow, it was almost hidden there by the tall grasses bowing at the weight of their own heavy blankets. But it was the light that caught my artist’s eye. The rising sun used the crystalline snow as some sort of magical prism. The golden glow of that sparkling morning created the composition and a painting was born.
There, in the still silence of a brittle, chilly January sunrise the old boat lay patiently in its own “Roberts Creek Winter Morning.”
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.
