These are a few of my favourite things

Inkriver has been a work in progress for many years. Initially, it reflected design/production work created for offset printing — the “Ink” in Inkriver was a reference to printing inks. At the beginning of the ’90s I was an early adopter of Adobe Photoshop as a means of creating colour separations for offset printing. By then, Inkriver also housed work in film and digital photography, that also entailed printing with inks.

Today, the site focuses on artwork that has taken over much of my psyche in recent years, and represents bits and scraps of drawing and photography that come together in challenging and abstract ways. There is also a good deal of black and white and colour photography here, reflecting a love of the medium throughout my adult life.

At one time I photographed almost exclusively in studio. These days, most of my lens based work is nature-based. Things change over time. I live on Vancouver Island, on the west coast of Canada, so the change in subject matter is linked to the natural environment.

Paul Saturley
Vancouver Island, 2024