Ann Kipling, Dog in the Sky, 1999

Paper: Rives BFK 100% rag paper. Signature: signed, titled and editioned.

Ann Kipling was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1934. Her unique use of line in drawing has gained her much recognition over the years. From her earliest recollections, she loved to observe the environment and of course, draw. Ann has always had a passion for animals and as a youngster often sought out horses to draw at the Oak Bay stables hear her home. Her mother and father were teachers and encouraged her to pursue her abilities to the fullest. Ann graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1960 and moved to Lynn Valley where she began her serious explorations of the landscape. She has worked as an artist ever since and now lives in Falkland, B.C. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections across Canada including the National Gallery of Canada, The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Artists For Kids Gallery 

Ann Kipling immersed herself in an Okanagan Valley presenting us with a sensitive panorama of land and sky depicted through the passage of time. Her distinctive mark making style allows the viewer’s imagination to recreate the images of her contemplation with their own. 

Kipling’s etching Dog in the Sky (1999), by contrast, dwells in intimate encounters. Over the course of her career on her rural Falkland homestead, she mapped the hills and trees through delicate, accumulative marks, suggesting that drawing could be a direct encounter with what lies just beyond thought’s busy tides. Throughout her work her images float between microcosm and macrocosm—swirling clouds render a dog’s exuberant spring, fish backs become mountains, solitary trees echo far-flung valleys—testifying to a landscape that is at once simple in its quiet presence and endlessly complex in its resonances. 

Lauren Brevner & James Harry’s Sínulhḵay, Jack Shadbolt’s Toward a White Garden, and Ann Kipling’s Dog in the Sky—have been brought together in the Fall 2025 Portfolio to explore the landscape’s complex psyche, the potency of animal symbolism, and the legacies of colonial encounter that still pulse through the Pacific Northwest today. 

Together, these editions invite you to contemplate the land’s living memory—its beauty, its wounds, its stories—and how through art we can confront, honour, and re-imagine our relationship to the world around us.

Ann Kipling | Marion Scott Gallery (external site)
Photo by Rachel Topham (external site)