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Bringing the West Coast inside
Artwork by Jennifer Alton
Squamish, BC

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Cox Bay Lookout is heading all the way to Singapore 🤍

Inspired by a small part of Vancouver Island’s wild coastline, Cox Bay Lookout holds a little bit of that west coast feeling I love so much.

It’s officially the furthest one of my paintings has ever travelled, which feels pretty surreal. Such an honour to know it’s going to a collector on the other side of the world.

So excited for this little piece and its journey. 🌿✨ taken in Cox Bay, Tofino, BC by @sitkasandseas

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Off to its new home 💚🏠

‘Above the Canopy’ 9x12 Watercolour on cold press

Grateful to those who collect my pieces, bringing a tiny part of our beautiful Northwest indoors. taken in Squamish, British Columbia by @sitkasandseas

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Just here, dotting tiny trees.
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#smallartist #smallart #pointillism by @sitkasandseas

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This little forest went from freshly listed yesterday, to quickly finding its new home 🌿

Heading the furthest North my art has ever travelled before, Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

One of my favourite things is seeing where my pieces end up in the world by @sitkasandseas

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‘Early Morning Mist’ 9x12 original watercolour on coldpress

A pairing to my other piece - Now available in my shop 🌲🤍 taken in Squamish, British Columbia by @sitkasandseas

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Some places stay with you long after you’ve driven through them. 🌲

Cathedral Grove is one of those places for me.

I created this piece a while ago, but after hearing that Cathedral Grove was crowned CBC’s 2026 Best Roadside Attraction in B.C., I wanted to bring it back for a little showcase.

I’ve driven this road more times than I can count, and there’s still something about rounding that bend and suddenly being surrounded by those enormous old-growth trees. You can’t help but feel small beneath them.

For this piece, I wanted to capture that feeling of being in the car, winding through the grove and watching these giants tower over the road.

It’s entirely hand-drawn in my fine-line pointillism style, with thousands of tiny ink dots, each deliberately placed to build the trees, shadows, light and depth of the forest.

If one day this original piece ever sells, I know that it will be going to a collector that loves and appreciates BC’s Old Growth trees just like I do 💚 taken in Cathedral Grove Forest, Vancouver Island by @sitkasandseas

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A view worth keeping 🤍

A special placed, captured in ink, dot by dot. Off to its new forever home to be loved for years to come. by @sitkasandseas

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I’m so happy to share that this little piece of Grouse Mountain will be available exclusively at The Spirit Gallery Gift Shop. 🤍

I created this sticker as a little love letter to the mountain, with its peaks, forest, gondola, and Grinder the Grizzly making his way through the trees.

Grinder was something I envisioned in this art piece from the beginning and sadly, he unfortunately passed earlier this summer after I finished this piece. He was given an extraordinary life living on Grouse Mountain alongside his grizzly buddy, Coola, and I feel honoured to have a small way of remembering him through this piece.

Whether it’s your first visit or you’re a local who never gets tired of being there, I hope this little sticker brings back a feeling of the mountain.

Available exclusively at The Spirit Gallery Gift Shop at Grouse Mountain. 🌲 taken in Grouse Mountain by @sitkasandseas

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and no matter how many times I try for clear shots of me stippling away on pieces…my fingers always take centre stage 😅✨ by @sitkasandseas

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A constant study of light, shadows, tones and hues. Discovering new pallets to try, and a way to go back in time to revisit the scenes that made me stop in my tracks as an artist.

I never want to limit myself on what I create, my mind is constantly exploring and studying the ways colours play in my own life. My camera roll is at its own limit, I take these pictures to admire the places I’ve been and the way the earth shows me everyday just how truly beautiful of an artist it is. by @sitkasandseas

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2 months ago

They really get on my nerves by @sitkasandseas

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3 months ago

My lesson on the bittersweet’s.

Letting this piece go, for me, is the true definition of bittersweet.

A feeling of both heavy and right.

Heavy because of all the hours folded into it.

The brushstrokes that no one else saw.
The slow movements of the layers being added.
The ways I could see my skills improving throughout the years being evident on the paper.

And right because it’s find it’s finding a home.

A place where it will live loved.
A home where the people in it, resonate with my work.
And a piece of me growing deeper into the corners of this world.

I find myself thinking of the places my art has traveled, and I stayed here. Wondering how many people my work has touched.

And honestly, that’s why I create. Not to keep everything close, but to let pieces travel.

To find new eyes, new lives, and new appreciation.

So yeah, bittersweet but beautifully so. by @sitkasandseas

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