BC Author and Watercolor Artist
Welcome to my world of art, literature, pottery, creativity and love of the beauty of all things nature. Enjoy your visit!
When you were young in Echo Bay, did you play by the creek, watch a leaf drift with the current and then carve a small canoe or build a wooden boat? Did you pack a lunch and imagine you were in a faraway magical place, skipping from rock to rock as the flooding tide rose? Have you kayaked to and camped at Echo Bay Marine Park, or come in your coastal vessel, moored at the marina and taken your skiff over to the park dock? Did you then walk up the ramp, past the cedar trees, the school, into the woods and across the creek on your way to Billy's Museum? Did you feel it was a secret path and you were the only one who'd discovered it?
For all who've been here, Echo Bay Creek embodies..... "A Special Memory" (11 x 14 watercolor, unframed) Jan 2022 Original Sold Giclee Limited Edition Print $165 plus pst Use the EMAIL US button below to inquire about purchase, thank you! |
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New Release!
Dear friends and fans of the world of the Broughton Archipelago, I know you are legion, as are those who enjoy a good book. I am astonished though by the number of people who manage to have a life and write a novel - the two seem often to be mutually exclusive. And many of those novels are good to great! If we've met, at my studio, or at Billy's Museum, or even if only digitally, you may know I've been talking about my novel for years...too many years. In truth I wasn't just talking about my novel, I really was writing it, but... however long you think it will take, (you know the rule) double it and add thirty. In this case, four years became eight and the extra thirty, well that's how many days after the date I expected to have printed books in hand that I actually will have books in hand. Maybe.
And I hope it will be considered good to great!
Was it Really Murder?
Big crime comes to a town too small to merit even that title. Residents of the loose-knit coastal community, Echo Bay, are confronted with the same matters as the world at large; drugs, mental health, racial friction, sexism, you name it.But everyone signs on to the code; whether you like them or not, you always help someone in need.
When local prawn checker, Tim Connolly, doesn’t show up for a dinner date with his girlfriend Kit Sampson, no-one is too concerned. But when a body is found washed up on an islet by young boaters, the discovery fragments the community into a tumult of distrust and suspicion. And then the RCMP come calling.
Far from the structures created to monitor and regulate larger populations, these people are resourceful, tough and sometimes merciless. If something needs to be cleaned up, they clean it up. They gossip, embellish, draw conclusions and take action, sometimes disaster results, and sometimes a fitting outcome.
The glorious beauty of the Broughton Archipelago, with Echo Bay at the heart of the inlets and islands provides the background for these colourful characters who ‘rub along’—but can take justice into their own hands
when one of their own breaks the social contract.
Murder Rides a Gale Force Wind is now available for download on your digital device.
Click here to order!
And I hope it will be considered good to great!
Was it Really Murder?
Big crime comes to a town too small to merit even that title. Residents of the loose-knit coastal community, Echo Bay, are confronted with the same matters as the world at large; drugs, mental health, racial friction, sexism, you name it.But everyone signs on to the code; whether you like them or not, you always help someone in need.
When local prawn checker, Tim Connolly, doesn’t show up for a dinner date with his girlfriend Kit Sampson, no-one is too concerned. But when a body is found washed up on an islet by young boaters, the discovery fragments the community into a tumult of distrust and suspicion. And then the RCMP come calling.
Far from the structures created to monitor and regulate larger populations, these people are resourceful, tough and sometimes merciless. If something needs to be cleaned up, they clean it up. They gossip, embellish, draw conclusions and take action, sometimes disaster results, and sometimes a fitting outcome.
The glorious beauty of the Broughton Archipelago, with Echo Bay at the heart of the inlets and islands provides the background for these colourful characters who ‘rub along’—but can take justice into their own hands
when one of their own breaks the social contract.
Murder Rides a Gale Force Wind is now available for download on your digital device.
Click here to order!
To Order signed and inscribed copies, email me here
searosestudio@hotmail.com
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. Contact me for a signed copy, because I have many!
~ Colour the British Columbia Coast ~
takes you to the southern Gulf islands, Pacific Rim park, the Broughton Archipelago and up the 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! Colour the British Columbia Coast promises many hours of happy creativity....
~ 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/
searosestudio@hotmail.com
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. Contact me for a signed copy, because I have many!
~ Colour the British Columbia Coast ~
takes you to the southern Gulf islands, Pacific Rim park, the Broughton Archipelago and up the 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! Colour the British Columbia Coast promises many hours of happy creativity....
~ 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/
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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) plus $15 shipping in Canada. Save on shipping by ordering all 3 books. Extra Shipping fee may be required when shipping outside of Canada. email for inquiries ...searosestudio@hotmail.com |
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Video of Drawn to Sea Book release and Legacy CD, Mother Daughter Book and CD tour by Kamile Kapel of Spontaneous Productions |
A beautiful video was made at Nanaimo North Library, by Derek Johnstone of Shaw TV, |
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