Northern Coho love fast, high-running water late into fall and winter. Strong swimmers, they're inspiring to watch as they navigate places like the Kakweiken River waterfalls.
© LEANNE HODGES 2000 Oil paint  2 X 3 ft

To embody the quick, elusive camouflage of these spawning coho, I exaggerated colour and movement using a palette knife with oil paint and plaster.
© LEANNE HODGES 1999 Oil paint impasto and plaster  2 X 3 ft

Deep wounds manifest painful outcomes, or they elicit ancient stories. Cultural reconnection and spirituality bring healing in a personal journey of choices.
© LEANNE HODGES 2009 Paper and oil paint  3 X 4 ft

Deep within the sea exist places we rarely witness, swathed in an energy dance of watery blues and greens. Echolocation is about the use of sonar and how its energy flows around orca and salmon alike.
© LEANNE HODGES 2008 Oil paint  3 X 4 ft

Blackfish is a mixed-media collaboration with artist John Martin Prevost. Our first collaborative work, Choices, was the bridge from which Blackfish emerged in true cross-cultural sharing.
© LEANNE HODGES & JOHN MARTIN PREVOST 2010 Acrylic paint and graphite  28 X 36 in

Backbones and Bloodlines is part of an ongoing series addressing the web of life supported by Pacific Wild Salmon, a keystone species of the BC coast.
© LEANNE HODGES 2010 Eco-logic latex paint  8 X 4 ft

Revive was inspired to honour the innate beauty of Pacific sockeye and their river habitat, and to acknowledge their diminishing numbers.
© LEANNE HODGES 1999 Batik dyed paper pulp, paint, oil pastel  3 X 4 ft

Grizzlies have an instinctual need to consume fat-laden sockeye to ensure the success of the reproduction and hibernation cycles.
© LEANNE HODGES 2010 Impasto style oil paint  3 X 3 ft

A harbour seal pup chasing rockfish expresses a love for exploring the spontaneous — mirroring the playfulness I enjoy when painting large scale wildlife images.
© LEANNE HODGES 2010 Acrylic paint  4 X 8 ft

Inspired by Briony Penn's Giving the Land a Voice: Mapping Our Home Places, Quadra Shorelines was part of a multi-island millennium mapping project.
© LEANNE HODGES 2001 Dyed paper pulp, marine chart  38 X 52 inches

The coastal grizzly sow thrives upon nutrient-rich and fat-laden salmon. In recent years the chum returns have plummeted in grizzly habitat, adversely affecting reproductive cycles.
© LEANNE HODGES 2010 Eco-logic latex paint  4 X 8 ft

Synergy depicts the true values linking the fundamental relationship between salmon and orca. BC resident orca populations would simply not exist without the salmon.
© LEANNE HODGES 2010 Eco-logic latex paint  8 ft x 31 in