The Man With the Magic Brush (And the Most Charming Cabin Studio Ever)

On Canada’s magnificent Clayoquot Sound, smack in the middle of Vancouver Island, floats a dream artist’s studio. It’s where painter Mark Hobson works, a brilliant painter of naturalist scenes—otters, salmon, undersea kelp forests—enhanced to be even more vivid and alive and dreamlike than those elements already are. You’re gonna want to spend some time with Mark, and his work, and that lovely studio.

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