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In our opinion no one communicates the mystery and splendour of the West Coast better than Salt Spring artist Carol Evans.
"A blaze of early sun lights up arbutus leaves on the north shore of Tent Island and paints everything in its path. The riot of warm, radiant light makes a strong contrast with the cool, quiet waters of dawn."
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Two images inspired by native myth and art: A shaman's remains rest on the top of the boulder on Langara Island in Shaman's Rock and the haunting remnants of ancient totems peer over the water at SGaang Gwaii in the Queen Charlotte Islands in her print SGaang Gwaii.
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"These falls were once the source of power that ran a community throughout its daily life and industry. With the passage of time...the forest is reclaiming the land."
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"We were struck by the pristine clarity of the water in Lagoon Cove, Pendrell Sound. When it was lit by the morning sun we could easily make out stones deep on the ocean floor far below the surface. It irresistibly calls 'dive in' ".
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"A creek, swollen with rainwater, tumbles over a high bluff onto the sand of Mystic Beach. From there it burbles and chuckles its way along to meet the sea"
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"Rainbow coloured ripples do an ever-changing dance across the ocean floor, reflecting brightly off white clamshells."
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"Looking through a window between fir trees, a sweeping view unfolds, from the summer grasses of DeCourcy Island all the way to the distant Vancouver Island mountains."
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"An eastbound tug ploughs through the waters of Active Pass in the warm morning light."
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Responding to light is always of the greatest importance to Carol:
"Light penetrates things, revealing inner qualities and colours, like the veins in a leaf or the translucence of a shell. It creates halos around them. It makes things shine and flash and reach out to you, come alive.
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It rings out like sound echoing here and there off everything, filling a place with its reflected glow like a visual symphony. It has a divine loveliness to it.
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It appears without any human hand causing it to appear. It is just there and a scene is blessed with its rays."
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This sensitivity to light and her ability to capture all its subleties of the environment of the West Coast is a hallmark of Carol Evans' work.
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Carol also feels that watercolour is one of the most appropriate mediums for landscape artists.
"The wet, delicate, and raw subtleties of watercolour washes are ideal for conveying the gradation of light within clouds or a summer haze, perfect for suggesting shapes and forms barely visible in shrouded mist or streaking rain.
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It has a characteristic fresh, organic quality that easily gives the impression of trees and plants, and of rock formations and their textures. It is quick and spontaneous, and has a simplicity to it requiring few tools and it cannot quite be tamed!"
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Since 1981 Carol Evans has held 15 successful one woman shows throughout the lower mainland and Vancouver Island. She was invited to participate in a group exhibition by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria "The Real West Coast: where Ms. Evans was honoured to have her paintings shown along side the work of fellow west coast artists.
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Click on any thumbnail of her limited edition prints for more information. New prints are added frequently so please come back and enjoy often.
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