I found this buoy floating in the middle of Hecate Strait while out on my family’s fishing boat. It was covered in gooseneck barnacles and likely came from the trawl fishery.

On this buoy I have painted a blunt nose six gill shark. These sharks are common in the waters off Vancouver Island but are rare to see as they mostly frequent deeper waters. There are places around the Island where divers have spotted them but they remain elusive and difficult to find.

A chum and coho salmon swim through a bull kelp forest alongside a humpback whale on this piece.

The round float was found on Hornby Island and is painted with a golden bull kelp forest framed by two old cedar floats.

I found this buoy floating in the middle of Hecate Strait. I have painted a giant humpback whale swimming through a kelp forest with a large school of Pacific herring.

I have painted a stellar sealion and a lion’s mane jellyfish in a kelp forest with bull kelp and giant kelp on this float once used in the salmon gill-net fishery.

I have painted an orca named Springer swimming in a kelp forest on this float donated to me by a fisherman from Bristol Bay Alaska