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Second Beach. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″ SOLD Cush Collection

A sunny Vancouver Saturday along the Stanley Park seawall.  Originally the painting was about the 2 figures sitting in the lower left of the image and the tales they were exchanging but as the brushstrokes danced, the standing figure and the reclining figure on the right, took center stage.  Again, my role reduced to that [...]

Painting from the Vancouver look out of downtown Vancouver and the Lion

Morning Optimism. Oil on canvas. 10″ x 10″ SOLD Smith Collection

Every morning in Vancouver can be called “Morning Optimism”.  This morning was a little more special though as it was a designated day off with plenty of adventures planned.  The weather was perfect and the Vancouver look out beckoned.  The day which progressed from this image brimmed over with excitement as we cycled every inch [...]

oil painting of sea plane in coal harbour, vancouver by local vancouver artist leanne christie

Dreaming Of Adventures still to unfold. Oil on canvas. 8″ x 8″ Sold

  From inception to completion, this painting flowed off the edge of my brush the way mercury dances across a surface.  I am not sure if it was the fact that it is one of my favourite but not very often represented subjects or if it was the romance of the evening in question which [...]

Oil painting of English Bay, Vancouver with cargo ship and yacht by Vancouver artist Leanne Christie

In the gap. Oil on canvas. 8″ x 8″. SOLD

A full year in the seeking but here she is. The perfect Vancouver stormy light. You know the moment when the clouds have descended, the sun is either beginning to set or she is hidden by cloud density, the atmosphere is dark and charged but suddenly the sun slips through. Slicing the air and bouncing [...]