Hello.

My name is Paul Saturley. I build graphic and photographic images. I am often driven by the desire to scratch beneath surfaces and explore things in detail. It is an odd, and maybe outdated, quirk in an age increasingly devoted to impression and surface.

I spend time in the woods and near the ocean on Vancouver Island, off Canada’s west coast. Fall and winter are my best months for shooting. I also make graphic images that are often compoited, but it is all my original work. Nothing is taken from published or commercial sources. More recently, I find myself drawn to abstraction and work with colour.

Prior to my time on this island I worked as a writer and editor, a college teacher, a freelance photographer and graphic designer.

The picture above this text describes much of what I do. On one level it is a straightforward colour photograph. But it is also more than that. There is an obvious face in the wood — an iconic creature that stares back at the ocean. It is a fundamental part of the natural landscape to which it belongs. If there are spirits anywhere on this planet, they live here.

Please take some time and look around. I hope you like what you see. Inkriver is a work in progress.

Paul Saturley, 2026