Landscape Paintings of Victoria and Vancouver Island by Mike Lathrop
Every time I am on the ferry returning home to Vancouver Island I breathe a sigh of contentment when the ferry docks in the terminal. I always enjoy watching the scenery change on the ferry; there is a slow transformation of surroundings, from malls and the coal terminal to the trees and rocky beaches of the gulf islands. This painting depicts islands that can be seen from the ferry just before it docks in Swartz Bay.
Prints and the original painting are available here.
The Moss Street Paint-In is just one week away!
The Artist Map is now available here. You can find me at Moss and George St.
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This was painted from a photograph taken during the long twilight of a spring night. There seems to be a time of year when spring progresses more and more every day. With longer days, plants wake up from their long sleep, and a weight lifts from our collective shoulders. On this night, when we walked around Swan Lake, it felt like the world was exhaling and starting to relax. We had to step up our pace to avoid being out after dark at the end, though. Night was approaching. Winter hadn’t given up all of it’s tenacious grip, but it was a relief to see colour returning to the landscape, and the sun in the clouds against a blue sky.
Prints and the original painting are available here.
I am pleased to announce I will be painting on-site and showing some of my work at Gorge on Art, a part of the annual Gorge Canada Day Picnic on July 1st, 2017.
It looks to be a fun event, and I am looking forward to it. You can read more about it here.
See you there!
There is an ambivalence for me when I see the ocean. I grew up on the prairies, where there is almost always a way to walk to any place you can see.
The ocean is full of life and possibility, and it is a gateway to the rest of the world, but it can also be seen as an impassable boundary that makes islands into worlds of their very own. That’s how I like to think of them when I see them from the summit of Bear Hill on the Saanich Peninsula.
Prints and the original painting are available here.