BC Author and Watercolor Artist
"Home of the Harlequin Duck "
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My heart is so captured by this place, a small archipelago called the Burdwood Group now. Once home to people who lived under rocky overhangs, who knows how many millenia long since passed. Abandoned eventually and then inhabited briefly once again by a new wave of settlers likely attracted for the same reasons; it's charm of scale and configuration, it's beauty and fecundity. Abandoned once again, and again likely for the same reasons; access to fresh water is limited.
The attractive paint job of the male totally eclipses that of the modestly-coloured female but she clearly understands her allure as he is never far from her and always attentive.
Now only the birds occupy the rocks and mirrored sea, in this case the Harlequin Duck, always paired and partnered, paddling peacefully and nibbling on a great variety of food sources from aquatic insects to shrimp, clams and periwinkles. 24 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas $2495
Email or call me to secure this painting or inquire about another.
WHITE ROCK LIBRARY PRESENTATION
June 1- 28 (please note date change) White Rock Library ~ When I was a young painter, emerging on the scene, I was offered the stairwell wall of the White Rock Library to hang my first watercolour paintings. I was thrilled.Within a couple months of my conversation with Flora Morton, the head Librarian in 1979, my paintings were hanging from the bottom floor to the top. The thrill I experienced with this show was crowned with actual sales and led to an invitation to hang a show at the Station Arts Center. My career was launched. I love the union of art, music and books, a beautiful union of all the arts and I thank the librarians of the White Rock Library for giving me a month in which to revisit my White Rock roots and hang my art, forty years after my first art show. Thank you so much to all those who came to meet with me on Monday June 3!
This show hangs until June 30 so take time to peruse the artwork and text and get the picture of my my world...
Yvonne's Books ~
If you are interested in the story of the Broughton Archipelago...look for these books on BC Ferries, independent BC bookstores, Billy's Museum or at SeaRose Studio near Echo Bay.
Colour the British Columbia Coast takes you to the southern Gulf islands, Pacific Rim park, the Broughton Archipelago and up the central coast to beautiful Haida Gwaii, featuring the people and places of our remarkable land/seascape. Drawings are printed on good quality paper for colouring or painting, each with a tear-out strip so you can mount or hang your picture. To the left of each drawing a short description of the scene, a book title or internet site offers more information about the topic. An Artist's Tip on each page too, which makes this book a whole lot more than just another colouring book! Retailing at $20.00, Colour the British Columbia Coast promises a lot of enjoyable creative time....
Read Bill Proctor and Yvonne's enduring classic of the history, people and places of the Broughton Archipelago - Full Moon Flood Tide - now a BC Classic with 10,000 copies sold! Tide Rips and Back Eddies continues the tradition and offers an in-depth portrait of Blackfish Sound and more coastal history.
In Drawn to Sea, Yvonne 'creates stunning, lyrical word pictures of her home in the Broughton Archipelago'. Making the most of the tools available, from paintbrush to chainsaw, she has flourished in this remote area, carving out a home and a career in a place far from just about everyone.
Available in your local bookstore, online or through Yvonne
copyright © Caitlin Press 2013. http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/drawn-to-sea/
'Murder Rides A Gale Force Wind', Yvonne's new novel is well underway and (hopefully) ready for publication in 2019. Will keep you posted! (Update, am beginning the third draft...)
My heart is so captured by this place, a small archipelago called the Burdwood Group now. Once home to people who lived under rocky overhangs, who knows how many millenia long since passed. Abandoned eventually and then inhabited briefly once again by a new wave of settlers likely attracted for the same reasons; it's charm of scale and configuration, it's beauty and fecundity. Abandoned once again, and again likely for the same reasons; access to fresh water is limited.
The attractive paint job of the male totally eclipses that of the modestly-coloured female but she clearly understands her allure as he is never far from her and always attentive.
Now only the birds occupy the rocks and mirrored sea, in this case the Harlequin Duck, always paired and partnered, paddling peacefully and nibbling on a great variety of food sources from aquatic insects to shrimp, clams and periwinkles. 24 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas $2495
Email or call me to secure this painting or inquire about another.
WHITE ROCK LIBRARY PRESENTATION
June 1- 28 (please note date change) White Rock Library ~ When I was a young painter, emerging on the scene, I was offered the stairwell wall of the White Rock Library to hang my first watercolour paintings. I was thrilled.Within a couple months of my conversation with Flora Morton, the head Librarian in 1979, my paintings were hanging from the bottom floor to the top. The thrill I experienced with this show was crowned with actual sales and led to an invitation to hang a show at the Station Arts Center. My career was launched. I love the union of art, music and books, a beautiful union of all the arts and I thank the librarians of the White Rock Library for giving me a month in which to revisit my White Rock roots and hang my art, forty years after my first art show. Thank you so much to all those who came to meet with me on Monday June 3!
This show hangs until June 30 so take time to peruse the artwork and text and get the picture of my my world...
Yvonne's Books ~
If you are interested in the story of the Broughton Archipelago...look for these books on BC Ferries, independent BC bookstores, Billy's Museum or at SeaRose Studio near Echo Bay.
Colour the British Columbia Coast takes you to the southern Gulf islands, Pacific Rim park, the Broughton Archipelago and up the central coast to beautiful Haida Gwaii, featuring the people and places of our remarkable land/seascape. Drawings are printed on good quality paper for colouring or painting, each with a tear-out strip so you can mount or hang your picture. To the left of each drawing a short description of the scene, a book title or internet site offers more information about the topic. An Artist's Tip on each page too, which makes this book a whole lot more than just another colouring book! Retailing at $20.00, Colour the British Columbia Coast promises a lot of enjoyable creative time....
Read Bill Proctor and Yvonne's enduring classic of the history, people and places of the Broughton Archipelago - Full Moon Flood Tide - now a BC Classic with 10,000 copies sold! Tide Rips and Back Eddies continues the tradition and offers an in-depth portrait of Blackfish Sound and more coastal history.
In Drawn to Sea, Yvonne 'creates stunning, lyrical word pictures of her home in the Broughton Archipelago'. Making the most of the tools available, from paintbrush to chainsaw, she has flourished in this remote area, carving out a home and a career in a place far from just about everyone.
Available in your local bookstore, online or through Yvonne
copyright © Caitlin Press 2013. http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/drawn-to-sea/
'Murder Rides A Gale Force Wind', Yvonne's new novel is well underway and (hopefully) ready for publication in 2019. Will keep you posted! (Update, am beginning the third draft...)
Sunbeams illuminate the textured trunks and
gnarled branches creating a lacey pattern of
forest. it serves as a backdrop to the clean rose
pink of the wild roses, blooming a little later than
is usual for them. The fragrance of the blooms
wafted over me as I painted, due to the profuse
blossoms warmed by the heated air.
It is impossible to explain, really, how the immense
pleasure experienced while painting in this fashion
erases all anxiety and stress, as if it never were. It
is my theory that war could be averted or at least
mitigated somewhat were everyone enabled to sit
and sketch as a daily practice.
This little sketch found someone to live with the same day it was created....more happiness.
gnarled branches creating a lacey pattern of
forest. it serves as a backdrop to the clean rose
pink of the wild roses, blooming a little later than
is usual for them. The fragrance of the blooms
wafted over me as I painted, due to the profuse
blossoms warmed by the heated air.
It is impossible to explain, really, how the immense
pleasure experienced while painting in this fashion
erases all anxiety and stress, as if it never were. It
is my theory that war could be averted or at least
mitigated somewhat were everyone enabled to sit
and sketch as a daily practice.
This little sketch found someone to live with the same day it was created....more happiness.
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Colour the British Columbia Coast I am so happy to share that my adult (and kids!) colouring book has been very successful and is still available in independent book stores. I love it when people send me drawings they have coloured and tell me what it meant to them. Contact me anytime for signed copies, or come by for a studio visit..... |
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You can order Drawn to Sea, Full Moon Flood Tide and Tide Rips and Back Eddies
(each 25.00) or Colour the British Columbia Coast (20.00) from me, see contact
page or email me...searosestudio@hotmail.com
A beautiful video was made at Nanaimo North
Library, by Derek Johnstone of Shaw TV,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHSNFD1atfg&feature=youtu.be&list=PLRSwDpSO92L18I9BBNULrpkIdR4pfnpQK
