Side Street Studio Blog | The best art that B.C. can offer

Kees Luch’s writes; I live on the edge of the Lantzville foothills on Vancouver Island, overlooking Georgia Strait.

In my workshop, sheltered in a wooded cedar grove, I pursues my passion of making beautiful, functional items from exotic hardwoods.  

I design  my pieces with the motto “Art That Works’.  A European background and love for elegant simplicity is evident in the clean, flowing, organic lines of this work.

Substantial time is spent locating the appropriate hardwoods, consistently searching through inventory on Vancouver Island and the lower B.C. Mainland for raw materials from suppliers supporting a sustainable forestry concept.

Each piece is handmade.  The work is extensively sanded to a fine smooth finish.  Then numberous coats of a hand rubbed, varnish type finish is applied, with sanding and buffing between each coat.

My work has been featured on the front cover of Western Living Magazine (August 2007), and is sold in juried shows and galleries in both Canada and the United States.

You can see more of Kees superb work at www.sidestreetstudio.com