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Selkies of Salt Spring Island
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Selkies of Salt Spring Island

Selkies of Salt Spring Island

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Colourful and vibrant canvas limited editions are each signed and numbered by Artist Jill Louise Campbell.  The canvas giclee artwork is produced locally on Salt Spring Island using archival inks and advanced printing technology.  All prints are carefully top-coated for added UV protection, providing flexibility to hang in bright sun-filled spaces. 

The Small & Medium Limited Editions are stretched by hand onto Canadian-made wood stretcher bars, ready to hang and enjoy. The Large size is normally shipped rolled due to its size.

Artist Jill Louise Campbell offers original enhancements to the Medium and Large sizes. Original enhancements add colour and texture, bringing out colours and adding the lovely true gold sparkle to the artists signature lining work.

“Foggy mystery days means time in my snug studio. My fire lit, new electric base heater cranked, stereo pumped I settle into choosing delicious colour to conjour up a painting. Diddle and fiddle I dab some more, feel it’s just not quite right. And then I have it! Yes! Selkies, harbour seals I can feel their presence popping up by resting skiffs, grouping together in a moment their indigo coat shiny, as shiny as their coal black eyes, camouflaged fur, they cavort about the inner docks right by my gallery. My gigantic luck! though as I savour my good fortune I take a moment to garner mutual admiration from passerby’s. Weird without comment they hardly give a glance! How is it that with magic all about, a grand natural water show no aquarium could match yet I am clearly the only witness?

A private joke for me and the Selkies as I gurgle up a laugh hardly believing my good fortune as it’s undeniable I was the star audience as they played me with all they had. 
Deep into these rememberings seals take shape on my canvas as a Payne grey paint blob with opaque inky eyes not a blink stared back. In an instant I knew they to remembered me at that long ago gathering in the inner harbour.
Is it my Celtic lineage, its magic stories encoded in watery crystals whispering to me, those painted beckoning Selkies could have been my Celtic ancestors from across the seas. Distance, time knows no boundary. Over the 40plus years living by our Pacific Ocean I have some pretty magical experiences with seals, their lure and fascination is mutual. Remembering a kayak paddle, with an entourage of more than 40seals surface about me for most of a day, even follow me from their sea world about the tiny island I visit. From every view I see the Selkies below staring up at me calling me to the sea.

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