Thin Air... Limited Edition Print

Each hand-signed and numbered reproduction is printed using archival inks on the finest quality, heavyweight acid free paper.
Included with each print is a signed, embossed certificate of authenticity and the painting back label story.

This edition will be limited to a maximum of 200 prints. Framing is not included.

Thin Air... limited edition print 

Print size 11.5" X 19" (image area 10" X 18") Price includes shipping and tax. Please allow time for "Buy Now" page to load ...

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145.00    

 

Thin Air won second prize at the 2010 American Art Awards.

The back label story...

Oak Bay, golden hour, October 2008. . This is Tamzen, the 10-year-old friend of my youngest daughter, Sarah, also then age 10. I’ve driven Sarah down to the park, next to the Oak Bay Marina in Victoria, BC, to visit with her friends. I’m suddenly drawn by the quality of the failing sunlight and manage to coerce the girls to come down to the beach and play there for a little while. I hope to capture images of them in this golden hour light. The beach is the place for getting the kids back connected with nature.

With city living, it seems, the environment affects us for only moments each day, perhaps only between the house and the car. I work from a studio that’s part of our house. The only environment I’m exposed to, on a regular basis, is our back yard.

In the 1980s, I spent a winter painting a show while living in a cabin on the west coast of Vancouver Island near Tofino, BC. I would go to the beach each morning with my coffee, sit on a log, and survey. I recall my father doing the same thing, when I was young. Over time, I began to recognized in myself a growing familiarity with the environment. The changing tides offer a very tangible and recognizable difference, from day to day. At that time, my activities centred around the beach, and therefore, the tides. A must – lest ye be fond of wet feet. I felt much more in harmony then, with the rhythms of the world.

I’m hoping that taking the kids to the beach is nurturing some of that same awareness and sensitivity in them.     Mark Heine