West Coast Prints

For over 27 years Angela’s Boutique, on Delta Street was a fixture in our village of Ladner, British Columbia. This Spring it closed because its beloved owner Angela Husvik passed away after a long, courageous battle with cancer. She was a community-minded and dynamic store owner that helped in making our village as wonderful as it is today. She will be deeply missed.

Autumn Harvest at The Backroads Family Farm Market Art Print Situated on the Road Between Ladner and Tsawwassen, Certainly Does Autumn and Halloween Right! No detail forgotten, it’s so Fall Festive! These two towns in Delta on the Westcoast of BC are, first and foremost, farming communities. In the Fall, the fields teeming with pumpkins ready to harvest are an amazing sight.

This illustration is based on a series of images I captured on a boat ride in the South Arm of the Fraser River with my friend Bob in the Fall of 2023. This is Autumn Reflections. It depicts a particularly favourite (I’ve completed a few other illustrations of this boat – namely Winter Reflections also available here to purchase) ramshackle and rotting fishing boat that had been left abandoned tied to a mooring just past the RiverWest condo complex along the river in Ladner, British Columbia. Hues of gold, orange, and yellow of the changing leaves of the abundant Poplar trees in the background and the white, teal and brown of the fishing boat in the foreground work in harmony to create a moment of serenity. All colours are reflected imperfectly in the silty, slightly disturbed waters of the Fraser River as we were just leaving the Chilcotin Slough.

Blue Dodge Van by the Seven Seas Fish Co. Ltd. Art Print Ladner, British Columbia. Mountain Trips and Trips to Vancouver Island Started in Ricks Van. For many years, our friend Rick used to park his Blue Dodge Van outside the Seven Seas Fish Co. Ltd. along the river in Ladner, British Columbia when it wasn’t in use. This van was reserved for mountain ski trips and trips to Vancouver Island to visit Rick’s children. It was a beauty of a van! The Seven Seas Fish Co. Ltd. was demolished about 2 years ago to make way for some harbour beautification projects (that, to be honest, we’re still waiting for), and I haven’t seen Rick or his van since about then either. Metallic blues, sky blue, and the metal grey of the old fish processing building make up this colour palette.

This image is of the corner of Chisholm St. and Georgia Street, kitty-corner from the site of the recently demolished the Seven Seas Fish Co. Ltd. in Ladner, on the Westcoast of British Columbia. This building is one of the 3 original Brackman-Ker Granaries, c. 1904. While historical, and also with bats in its attic, it probably doesn’t have too much time left in this world as its been structurally sagging for years now. Illustrating both peeling paint and flower blossoms are painstaking, but I just can’t help myself, as I am so drawn to both elements. I’m especially attracted to the meaning of their juxtaposition too; the cycle of life, old and new, abandonment and renewal. 

I am very fond of crows. This illustration, Crows of Elliott St., depict a couple of the members of my favourite winged creatures near where I live in the village of Ladner. My husband and I having been feeding this same crow family for many years. If they spot us leaving our home and walking our dog, Wink, they often swoop down and walk along side us and chat away. They patiently (sometimes not so patient!) wait for us to drop peanuts for them. Hues of turquoise, sky blues, springy greens and yellows frame the shiny black bodies of the crows in this vibrant colour palette.