Author: Elizabeth Austin

San Josef Bay is at the northern end of Vancouver Island within Cape Scott Provincial Park.  The sea stacks at one end of the beach are a fun sight to see and walk around.

A 2.5 km walk into the beach at San Josef Bay is worth the effort.  The beach is a beautiful sight to see!

It’s a short walk into a big beach at Grant Bay  on the west coast.   It’s always a perfect day when I set up and paint on the beach.

At the end of the Botel Trail is a wonderfully rocky remote beach.  It was so quiet I could hear the wings of an eagle as she carried a fish low across the water where she disappeared into the forest.  An otter was on his back  and I could hear him cracking shells on his … Read More

I painted the more formal gardens with established structure of  Van Dusen Botanical Gardens.  I had to paint this piece in a hurry as one of the gardeners asked me to move.

I painted this little piece in the  Sunflower Garden in Van Dusen Botanical Gardens.  The Sunflower faces all look towards the sun.

So many great memories of the wonderful little town of Lahaina, Maui.  The fire that destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui is now a sad fact of life and will always be hard to accept.

The daffodil fields in Chilliwack are a lovely sight to see!  I painted this from photos I took when the daffs were in bloom.