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Title: “Elizabeth at Point No Point”
Medium:Acrylic on canvas
Size: 30″X40″
Price:$3,500.00 (Mounted on deepstretcher bars, no frame required)
For many years, we have enjoyed staying at Point No Point resort just a few miles south of Victoria BC.
Elizabeth used to go there with her mom and dad when she was very young and it was one of those [...]
Opening reception on April 4, from 6-8 pm Eclectic Gallery, 2170 Oak Bay Ave Victoria, BC
(250) 590-8095
Title: “Cobble Cottage” (House On Monterey avenue, Victoria BC
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size:24″X32″ (Frames out to 35″X47″)
Price: $2,100.00 (Available through Eclectic Gallery on Oak Bay avenue, Victoria, BC Canada 250 598 8095 )
I love this little house. It has [...]
“Sanctuary of Peace” is a twenty three foot stainless steel sculpture designed and completed by my son Samuel and I.
We designed it for exhibition at the city of Sidney BC. It will be installed for one year.
This sculpture tested the limits of what we can build in the simple workshop in our backyard. Our shed [...]
Blackbirds Rise Across the Fields
This is a guest post by Elizabeth (Deryk’s wife) to add her own story about Deryk painting out in the fields.
”Blackbirds Rise Across the Fields” is a painting that captures one of the many moods of Vancouver Island’s farmland. I believe that Deryk was drawn to a lifestyle [...]
Auction of “New Generation” 11″X 36″ acrylic on canvas.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130527926041
I have started an auction on my painting “Next Generation”, on e Bay as another way to market my art. I believe that galleries are a good way to buy art and I always direct people as best I can to the galleries that represent me. Canada [...]
On February 14th, 2010,(Next Valentines Day) I am inviting as many crazy, romantic people as possible to “Kiss the Blue Bridge” with a thousand or more helium filled balloons next valentines day. I would like to encourage everyone interested, to arrive by Kayak, small boat, or on foot at 9:00am. around and under the Johnstone [...]
World Congress on Family Law and children’s Rights are holding the Fifth World Congress, “Children caught in Conflict”…23-26 August 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
One of the points that caught my eye was that they are ”proudly not just a “talk fest”.
And I believe in that idea myself completely. The organization has been presented with awards from [...]
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Happening
Deryk at Ogden Point, Victoria, BC. (photo by Elizabeth)
Current work and upcoming exhibitions:
My next exhibition of acrylic paintings at the Eclectic Gallery on Oak Bay Avenue will be from March 25, 2013 to May 4.
NEW! Victoria Art Gateway is our new way to tap into the “Cognitive Surplus” of artists and like-minded people in the Victoria BC area. We want YOU to share your plans, stories and ideas. Info at: victoriaartgateway.derykhouston.com
I am currently featured at the amazing Sooke Harbour House and my wife Elizabeth has her glass-on-glass mosaics there too. Please visit 1528 Whiffin Spit Road Sooke, BC. from 9am t0 9pm daily.
and we also have work available at Merridale Cider.
My installation “Seeking Peace” was at the Nanaimo Art Gallery January 13th 2012 – April 14th 2012 .
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