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The Shores We Call Home

The Art of Carol Evans

by (author) Carol Evans

Publisher
Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Initial publish date
Feb 2010
Category
Canadian, Artists' Books
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550174656
    Publish Date
    Feb 2010
    List Price
    $18.95

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  • Age: 7
  • Grade: 2

Description

The mystical shores of coastal British Columbia hold boundless inspiration and an enigmatic spiritual presence for many who live along its various coves and inlets. For almost three decades, Carol Evans has been practicing and refining her art,creating stunning portrayals of the beautiful and rugged shores of Vancouver Island and the coastal mainland. Her intensity of colour and attention to the subtleties of light are trademarks of her increasingly popular watercolour paintings.

The Shores We Call Home contains over eighty of Evans' works, collected here in gorgeous full-colour reproductions that faithfully represent the startlingly vivid visions of the original watercolours, capturing the unique character of BC's exquisite shoreline landscape--a place like nowhere else on earth.

About the author

Carol Evans’s work has achieved international acclaim as part of many group exhibitions and private collections worldwide. Her art has been published in West Coast: Homeland of Mist (SummerWild Productions, 1992), Releasing the Light (Raincoast Books, 1997), and the bestselling The Shores We Call Home (Harbour Publishing, 2010). She lives on Saltspring Island, BC, with husband Bryn King.

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Librarian Reviews

The Shores We Call Home: The Art of Carol Evans

This beautiful volume contains over 80 full-colour reproductions of Carol Evans’ detailed watercolour paintings of the BC coast. Evans captures perfectly the essence of the West Coast the light playing on water, sea mist, billowing clouds, craggy cliffs overhung with gnarled arbutus, secluded beaches and towering evergreens. In an educational setting, this book would be very useful to spark creative writing, student art work, Social Studies map work or observations about West Coast geography and plant and animal life.

Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2010-2011.

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