Here Lies My Heart - Fine Art Print

Does it look like a broken heart half-buried in sand to you? It wasn’t until after I’d painted it that someone made this comment, and it was such a poignant observation that now I can’t unsee it.

The Pesuta was a cargo barge that ran ashore on East Beach north of Tlell in Haida Gwaii, during a storm in 1928. When I visited the site in June of 2016 I arrived near dusk and camped out overnight in the dunes west of the shipwreck, and sketched what was left of the vessel in the morning. My sketch was a lot rougher than this!!

A few days later at the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, I met an artist in residence there who was leading a workshop on how to transfer a reference image onto a painting surface using a grid method, and I knew which image I had to use.

Over the next 2 months I chipped away at this painting, first drawing it on a grid in pencil, then painting it in gouache (an opaque kind of watercolour paint). When it was finished the original hung in the living room of Emily Carr House for a few months, for my first solo show in 2016 (for which I had these 8x10 prints made!). The original hung in my home for 4 more years until it was purchased in 2020, but I still have some prints left.

This 8” x 10” archival print was made at Art Ink Print in Victoria, and ships unframed in a plastic sleeve with an acid-free card backing board. Each will be signed by hand before shipping, and shipping and handling is included. It’s important to note that when considering framing it, note that the mat opening would be 8”x10”, and so the print should be framed larger. It will not simply fit into a standard 8x10 frame.