Vancouver Island Landscape Art
Some fine landscape art ends up in the homes and galleries around Nanaimo. The local aesthetics are by turns beautiful, wild, and gloomy as the tides, which the local artists translate well into drunken, vibrant paintings. There are distinctive styles in Nanaimo which seem to derive from BC artists as E.J. Hughes and Emily Carr, and of course international figures like El Greco.
Arbutus trees and sandstone, driftwood-choked inlets and the wide open sea, mountain vistas and great forests all make for stunning landscapes, and local artists are gifted in reproducing some of the unique combinations of form and colour that make Vancouver Island so stunning. Visit any of the local art galleries and you'll see a lot of great styles.
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