I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, amongst tall timber, and made frequent trips to the coast. My career took my family and me out of the region for nearly three decades, but we made frequent trips back – what we referred to as the annual “Grandma Tours,” and often as not spent two to three weeks on the coast living out of a slide-in camper.
My return to the PNW began in 2013 with an extended sailing trip out of Bellingham, Washington, and continued with training sails offshore of Vancouver Island in subsequent years, which among many things, rekindled my affinity with water, and the sea.
Thus, your might say that my aesthetic is that of the Salish Sea – greens, blues, blacks, the colours of the forest, and of the sea, accented with hints of reds and oranges and yellows.
There is no question that my website will reflect this. You might wonder, “Why then Nova Nova – no greens or blues there? Why not Zenith or Quasar?” Mostly, because for me reds and oranges are far out of my box, and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to work in a palette unfamiliar.