Waves IV Bin Wrapper
I was really fortunate I got to live on Chesterman Beach when I first got out here and being able to get up and to look at that, just the humbling everchanging face of that beach and of the ocean, it just changes you as a person. I feel like instead of going to university I got an education in the ocean.
Everything I think I’ve learnt that had any value in my life happened when I was alone and usually when I was in nature.—Deanna Larkin
Waves IV is part of artist Deanna Lankin’s two-year exploration of waves. This particular wave was inspired by nearby Chesterman Beach and expresses Lankin’s love of the ocean. Featured on the bin wrapper at the the entrance to North Chesterman Beach, it is a commissioned work by District of Tofino.
As an artist I have an opportunity … I can’t describe in words how it feels to be with the ocean, but I can try to paint it. And the project over the two years, painting the difference faces of the ocean was like trying to capture the moods of this great love that I had in my life, and I could just paint it forever and never capture all of it.
Deanna Lankin recalls how she moved here to pursue her west coast dream to surf, paint, and build a life and career. She learned about the business of art first by working at Roy Henry Vickers Gallery. She has since apprenticed with Mark Hobson, at whose gallery she now works, and where her art is featured.
Deanna Larkin also discusses in detail how the craft of painting can feel like the alchemy of magic. To learn more about the artist and her work, please visit: www.deannalankin.com/#/westcoast
