Author: Tracy Kobus
Tracy Kobus works out of her home studio near the Puntledge River in the beautiful Comox Valley. The paintings she creates, found in collections worldwide, give a thoughtful perspective on the interrelationship between humans and the natural world.
Cougar Annie and the Art of Survival
December 2, 2024
Cougar Annie was a legendary character on the west coast. At the end of a five-day hike around the Hesquiat Peninsula with friends, we received a tour of Cougar Annie’s garden led ...
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Why I Love Bikes
October 31, 2024
I can still remember my first bike. It was a red “girls” bike with a matching red and white seat. I called it Thunder, pretending it was a horse, and rode it ...
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A Wild Experience - Hiking the Hesquiat Peninsula
September 29, 2024
At the end of August I hiked the Hesquiat trail with my husband and four other friends. The trail follows the coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula, a large promontory just south of ...
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How Colour Makes Me Feel
August 29, 2024
I’ve often imagined that observing bright colours, especially in nature, was like taking vitamins. The neon green moss in the forest in February, an intense dark blue sky behind white snowy trees, ...
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The Creative Focus at MISSA
July 30, 2024
In hindsight, I can see that it was a random chain of events that led me to teach drawing at the Metchosin Summer School of the Arts (MISSA) this July.
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Making Tracks on the West Coast Trail
June 24, 2024
In May 2024 I hiked the West Coast Trail, for the second time (last time was about 2004), with a couple friends. The trail is a 75km journey that steals its way ...
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Keep Dreams Alive
May 31, 2024
Categories: Inspiration, Motivation
What is your dream? We may have fantasies about what we would like to happen, but knowing how to make them come true may be about as clear as trying to see ...
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The Search for Treasure
May 1, 2024
A common stumbling block for artists is “not knowing what to draw, paint, write or sew etc…”. I have heard students or artist friends lament about this and I have been stuck ...
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Did the Dinosaurs Think?
April 1, 2024
Categories: Creativity, Nature
It can be hard to believe, that we live our day to day lives on land that was once shaped by ice or volcanic lava, been the bottom of an ocean, or ...
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Permission to Paint
March 3, 2024
I’ve always felt that I had permission to be an artist. Not in an official way, like I asked someone and they said it was ok – but in a way that ...
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