To arrange for purchase or for a private viewing of any of Penn’s works at Starfish Gallery,
please call 250.537.4425 or send an email to contact the gallery.
“Spring Medicine Wheel”
signed limited edition print, 17×17″
“Spring around the Salish Sea is crazy with colour in the coastal meadows. Camas blues, shooting star magentas, chocolate lilies, western buttercups, rainbow-like stonecrops and white easter lilies are all in bloom. Sadly, these meadows that once were an abundant source of food, medicine and beauty for the Salish First Nations have been depleted due to development, invasive species, and over-browsing. I have seen so many of these amazing meadows ripped up by bulldozers, overlain with lawns and imported plants, the owners never knowing that these were priceless endangered ecosystems and places of great beauty. When you see a mossy rocky outcrop with pockets of soil, imagine all these flowers back in them, fertilized by the scat of river otters and the guano of glaucous winged gulls. These medicine wheels are my plea for us to protect and restore these original coastal Edens.”
“Summer Medicine Wheel”
signed limited edition print, 17×17″
“The Summer Saltspring Wheel features species I found around my home, which is near an estuary, Douglas-fir forest and Garry oak meadow. It breaks my heart to see people not understand the beauty and diversity of this island, and bring in bulldozers to remake it to make it look like some other landscape (such as Provence). This landscape is an endangered ecosystem and home to thousands of species. It is beautiful — every inch of it — in its natural form. I hope to show people the small things that make up the larger beauty and our inter-connectedness. ”
“Autumn Medicine Wheel”
signed limited edition print, 17×17″
“Autumn around the Salish Sea is called the golden time for the turning leaves. The wheel contains those things that captured my eye at this time of year. From the orange peel fungus lining the edge of forest trails, to the ripened berrries of the arbutus, Indian plum and trailing blackberry, I love the subtle variation in yellows, reds and oranges of this timeof year. Flicker-feather orange to Nootka rose red are far more interesting than lipstick-named colours like Candy Apple Red! What catches my eye in the autumn are the spiders and mushrooms, the moulting feathers of birds, the exposed skulls of an unfortunate vole. Every inch of this landscape in its natural form is stunning, and I hope to show people the small things that make up the larger beauty and our inter-connectedness.”
“Winter Medicine Wheel”
signed limited edition print, 17×17″
“Winter around the Salish Sea is a vivid time of year. The lichens, ferns, liverworts and mosses of infinite variations of form and colour. The evergreens — like Douglas-fir and western red cedar — are sighing with pleasure, having their roots sinking into moisture again. The intertidal life thrives in the cooler water. Seaweeds are washing up on the shores after the storms, and the few wrinkled berries not eaten by the birds still linger on the bushes. You spot objects like owl pellets, the shed skin of garter snakes, the feathers of a raven or the skull of a bird amongst the decaying grasses. This landscape is an endangered ecosystem and home to thousands of species. It is beautiful — every inch of it — in its natural form. I hope to show people the small things that make up the larger beauty and our inter-connectedness.”
To arrange for purchase or for a private viewing of any of Penn’s works at Starfish Gallery,
please call 250.537.4425 or send an email to contact the gallery.
