Hornby Island Wall Art and Fine Art Photography Prints

Hornby Island sits in the Strait of Georgia off the east coast of Vancouver Island, the outer of the two Northern Gulf Islands beyond Denman. From Buckley Bay it takes a ferry to Denman, a drive across that island and a second ferry to Shingle Spit, and by the time you roll off the second ramp the highway feels a long way behind you. The island is small enough to drive around in an afternoon, home to a long-standing community of painters and potters, with a shoreline of sculpted sandstone that changes at every point.

Tribune Bay is the reason most people come. The beach is a long curve of pale sand on the south side, and at low tide the water runs out over shallow flats that warm through a summer afternoon, which is why it turns up on lists of the best beaches in Canada. The rest of the island rewards the people who keep going. Helliwell Provincial Park has a loop trail along open bluffs above the strait, Fossil Beach on the northwest shore has fossils set in its rock, and Phipps Point on the west side looks across Lambert Channel and Denman to the Vancouver Island mountains at sunset.

I live in the Comox Valley, close enough that Hornby is a day trip on the map. The ferries set the pace once you are on the way, and that slower pace is part of what I like about the place. The west side gets the sunset over Vancouver Island and the east side gets the strait and the morning light, so there is somewhere to be at either end of the day. This gallery is the places on Hornby I would send a friend to see.

Hornby Island wall art from this gallery is available in matte paper, metal, acrylic and framed finishes, in sizes from small-wall to large, with Hornby Island art prints shipping from a Canadian printer and separate US fulfilment for orders from the States.