Having grown up in a small town on Lake Huron in Ontario, Deanna Lankin has always found solace in the water. She attributes her ability to pursue a career in art to her parents, Glenn and Leesa. Their relentless encouragement has been her greatest driving force throughout her life. Deanna has been painting professionally in Tofino since 2005 when, like so many others, she drove out to the coast to try surfing.  Lankin’s style combines the antiquity of classical oil technique with a contemporary palette, focusing on the West Coast landscape and its people.  Her work has been shown in Vancouver and all over Vancouver Island, including a number of exhibitions at the Wickaninnish Inn Relais & Chateau.  Lankin brings a fresh perspective on portraiture and landscapes with her palette of muted colours, sweeping texture and expansive, etheric use of negative space for which she is known.

Deanna currently displays her art at the Mark Hobson Gallery in Tofino, B.C. Canada.

“There’s a very specific moment that I constantly seek.

It happens often when I’m alone in nature.

It’s in-ignorable when I’m sitting under and old growth cedar

or standing on an empty shore.

As an artist I’ll never stop trying to capture it.”

DEANNA LANKIN