Cowichan Valley: Raincoast at risk uniting B.C. artists

Fifty promi­nent British Columbian artists are pick­ing up paint brushes and sculpt­ing tools to protest Enbridge’s pro­posed North­ern Gate­way pipeline — and two Cowichan Val­ley artists are join­ing them.

Por­trait painter David Goat­ley of Shawni­gan Lake, and Collin Elder, an up-and-coming Lake Cowichan artist, have been invited to accom­pany well-known artists Robert Bate­man and Roy Henry Vick­ers on the Artists for an Oil-free Coast project spon­sored by Rain­coast Con­ser­va­tion Foundation.

These 50 painters and sculp­tors will travel to the Great Bear Rain­for­est on British Columbia’s west coast, which extends roughly from Pow­ell River to the Alaska boundary.

Maeve Maguire — Cowichan News Leader Pic­to­r­ial, July 05, 2012